Reviving
liberal
Politics
the
Catholic
Social
Teaching
of
AMERICAN COMMUNION
The belief that all Peoples are
irreducibly worthy, inalienably equal,
and acting together in good faith,
courageous conscience & radical solidarity
are profoundly prophetic & called to create
a new American political theology
for strategic human communion.
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CONSCIENCES
THEOLOGY
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Reviving Catholic Social Teaching
& a Political Theology of Vatican II for the 21st Century
Reading the Signs of the Times
The Dignity of the
Human Person
Authentic Human Development
Reading the Signs of the Times
Reading the Signs of the Times
Reading the Signs of the Times
Reading the Signs of the Times
Reading the Signs of the Times
Reading the Signs of the Times
Reading the Signs of the Times
Reading the Signs of the Times
Reading the Signs of the Times
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Reviving Catholic Social Teaching
Reading the Signs of the Times*
The Dignity of the
Human Person
Authentic Human Development
Love of God &
Love of Neighbor
Love and Justice
Dialogue
The Dignity of Work
The Priority of Labor Over Capital
Religious and Social Development
The Person in Community
The Common Good
Human Freedom & Social Structures
Structures of Sin & Structures of Grace
Liberation
The Role of the Church
Rights and Responsibilities
Human Rights
Private Property & Social Mortgages
Resisting Market Idolatry
The Role of Government
Preferential Option for the Poor
Distributive Justice
A Living Wage
*Many of these Catholic Social Teaching themes were taken from Edward P. DeBerri, et. al, "Catholic Social Teaching: Our Best Kept Secret."
Teaching the Catholic Social
Interrupting Clerical Fascism, Empowering Critical Pedagogy, Transcending National Conservatism
Reading the Signs of the Times
The Dignity of the
Human Person
Authentic Human Development
Love of God &
Love of Neighbor
Love and Justice
Dialogue
The Dignity of Work
The Priority of Labor Over Capital
Religious and Social Development
The Person in Community
The Common Good
Human Freedom & Social Structures
Structures of Sin & Structures of Grace
Political & Economic Liberation
Democracy &
Participation
Rights and Responsibilities
Human Rights
Private Property & Social Mortgages
Resisting Market Idolatry
The Role of Government
Over the past 50-plus years, Catholic institutional leadership in the United States has progressively abandoned the social justice teachings of the church and pluralistic democracy for narrowly defined ecclesiastical-cultural interests, clerical lawfare, metapolitics, and ultranationalist (illiberal) state power in its alliance with the GOP.
The mission of The American Communion Project is to create an alternative for progressive Catholics, ex-Catholics, Nones, and humanists to reconnect with the abandoned traditions of Catholic social justice, the democratic defense of universal human rights, and the non-violent anti-fascist and pro-liberal pastoral vision of The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), also known as Vatican II (and here as 'V2').
V2 unambiguously affirms theologies of freedom of conscience, freedom from religion, and the political responsibility of individuals and Peoples to create a radically inclusionary & participatory liberal democracy for human communion, i.e. "a new humanism," and to organize direct action for this new humanism in the public square.
Subsidiarity & Solidarity
Preferential Option for the Poor
Distributive Justice
A Living Wage
The Right to
Form a Union
Racial Justice
Unity of Humanity
Peacemaking &
Just War
Pacifism & Non-Violence
Universal
Basic Income
Care for Creation
Stewardship of Natural Resources
Environmental Justice
Indigenous and Migrant Justice
The Integral Ecology of Peoples
*Many of these Catholic Social Teaching themes were referenced from
Edward P. DeBerri's, et. al, "Catholic Social Teaching: Our Best Kept Secret."
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Generation None is an intergenerational cohort of Americans who don't self-identify with a religion. Their religion is "none" or "nothing in particular." Catholicism suffers the largest decline in affiliation, and Nones are the fastest growing religious category. Nones may still believe in God or identify as spiritual, but all believe the institutional church hurts rather than helps advance democracy, human rights, and the liberal common good. "Political Theology for Generation None" is an intellectual home for Vatican II Catholics, ex-Catholics, anti-racists, humanists, and social justice advocates to interrupt white Christian Nationalism, clerical fascism, and plutocratic authoritarianism ascendent in American society today.
Political Theology for Gen None
"We must meet one another doing good.
'But I don't believe Father, I am an atheist!'
But do good: we will meet one another there."
--Pope Francis
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Radical Liberal Reflections
If yours is a Christian God, can you see God in the Black Christ? Or are you offended at this theological prompt? Are you aware that the historical Jesus was not White or European? Do you believe in the 100% human and 100% divine existence of Black, Brown, First, immigrant, working class, and poor Peoples?
This iconography is called "Mama," by Kelly Latimore. Latimore quotes the founder of Black liberation theology, James Cone, as a literatry supplement to this artwork:
“The cross can heal and hurt; it can be empowering and liberating but also enslaving and oppressive. There is no one way in which the cross can be interpreted. I offer my reflections because I believe that the cross placed alongside the lynching tree can help us to see Jesus in America in a new light, and thereby empower people who claim to follow him to take a stand against white supremacy and every kind of injustice (The Cross and the Lynching Tree)."
Let us, then, as Vatican II Catholics, ex-Catholics, and Nones take a stand against Christian ultranationalism and its violent fantasy of an "Anglo-American" national rebirth. For theirs is an illiberal clerical utopianinsm of the societas perfectas and antithetical to American Communion, a political theology for Generation None.
In Dangerous Memoriam
Thomas Merton
Thea Bowman
Oscar Romero
Ernesto Cardenal
Cesar Chavez
Dorothy Day
Mary Antona Ebo
George Higgins
John A. Ryan
Advancing a Radically Pro-Liberal
Integral Ecology for American Communion
to Close the Gap Between the Inalienable Equality of Peoples
& National Conservatism's Lawfare Against Self-Determination
Advancing a Radically Pro-Liberal
Political Theology for Catholic Social Teaching
to Close the Gap Between the Irreducible Worthiness of All Peoples
& the Dehumanization of the Other by Christian Ultranationalists