Catholic neoconservatives

Originally posted at Talk to Action.

The Catholic Right, Part Seventy-one

Don Wilky, in his recent post The Religious Right's Fear of Obama's Economics, cited Sarah Posner's conclusion in God's Profits, "...that one of the driving forces of the religious right is laissez-faire."

This is especially true of the many on the Catholic Right who share this social Darwinist view of economics. To this mix, Catholic neocons have added an element of historical revisionism, as I discuss in the forthcoming Winter 2008 edition of The Public Eye magazine. Nowhere have they done this more so when it comes to explain basic principles of Catholic economics.

Originally posted at Talk to Action.

One of the things I have stressed in my series on the Catholic Right is that we have got to understand natural law in order to understand the Catholic Right and increasingly allied conservative Evangelicals.  That being the case, I think any reasonable understanding of the wider Religious Right is incomplete without it.

The Summer 2008 issue of The Public Eye magazine has just published what I hope provides a useful primer: "How Roman Catholic Neocons Peddle Natural Law into Debates about Life and Death".

Here is an excerpt: