The Social Encyclicals and Saint Thomas Aquinas

by Dr. Donald G. Boland

OTHER TITLES BY DONALD G. BOLAND

1. Logic, Science, and St. Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
2. Natural Philosophy, Modern Science and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
3. Science, Psychology and Saint Thomas Aquinas by Donald G. Boland | En Route Books and Media
4. Ethics Today and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
5. Natural Law – Australian Style | En Route Books and Media
6. Political Science and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
7. Economic Science and St. Thomas Aquinas: On Justice in the Distribution and Exchange of Wealth | En Route Books and Media
8. The Social Encyclicals and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
9. Metaphysics, Truth and St. Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
10. Metaphysics/Ontology and St. Thomas Aquinas (Twenty Readings in Wisdom Forsaken) | En Route Books and Media
11. Thomas of the Creator | En Route Books and Media
12. The Thomist Tradition: Avoiding Scylla and Charybdis | En Route Books and Media

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​ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Donald G Boland Ll. B. Ph. D. is a founding member of the Centre for Catholic Studies Inc. in Sydney Australia and is one of its former Presidents. He practiced for a number of years as a lawyer having a degree in law from the University of Sydney. Over much the same time, having obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the University of St. Thomas in Rome, he has taught philosophy and law in both Catholic and secular educational institutions, such as the University of Technology, Sydney, the University of Newcastle, the Aquinas Academy, the Centre for Thomistic Studies Inc., now operating under the name of the Centre for Catholic Studies Inc., and various Catholic seminaries, such as those of the Marists and the Vincentians. His doctoral thesis was on the concepts of utility and value in economics as found in the works of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas.

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The Globalization of the Western Cultural Revolution: Key Concepts, Operational Mechanisms

by Marguerite A. Peeters, Ph.D.

A new ethic, secularist in its radical aspects, has spread like wildfire all over the world since the end of the cold war. This ethic is the fruit of the Western feminist, sexual and cultural revolutions and of the long march of the West towards post-modernity. In the West, the revolution is achieving its chief objectives and even seems to have reached the point of self-destruction. But for a generation, the battle line has moved to the non-Western world. This manual aims to provide educators with the information they need to acquire, in the light of the eternal law written by God himself in the heart of all men and women, the knowledge and the discernment of the key concepts and operational mechanisms of the globalization of the western cultural revolution. It also seeks to encourage our friends in the non-Western world to be faithful to who they are and, by remaining themselves, to offer the world a leadership that is specific to them and that is already awaited by all those who wish to go back to reality, truth and love.

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Photo by The European Conservative during book launch in Hungary, January 26, 2023

REVIEW

Dr. Ted Baehr, Founder and Publisher of Movie Guide. The full review page may be found here. 

 

The Globalization of the Western Cultural Revolution is the most compelling, important, profound, readable analysis of the destructive influence of postmodernism on the world at large. Postmodernism is a loose term applied to a group of left-wing theories attacking conventional notions of reality and social structures. Author Marguerite A. Peeters does an incredible job of helping the reader understand the roots of postmodernism, the impact of postmodernism, the players in the postmodern revolution, and the social devastation it’s caused. First, she details the influence of feminists like Margaret Sanger and Simone de Beauvoir, the fraud of Alfred Kinsey and his new science of “sexology”, and the Cultural Marxism of Herbert Marcuse in a fruitful, compelling way. Having studied most of these influences for years, I was surprised to find myself educated in a way that could produce a zeal for reclaiming the territory post-modernism has taken. If you want to know why governments have been powerless to stop post-modernism, this is the book. If you want to know how post-modernism undermined religion, this is the book. If you want to understand the destruction of democracy and capitalism by post-modernism, this is the book. The Globalization of the Western Cultural Revolution shows the dictatorship of the post-modern groups as they work within the United Nations, NGOs (or non-governmental organizations), and governing bodies in society to refute the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. If there’s one book that you read, The Globalization of the Western Cultural Revolution is the book. The Globalization of the Western Cultural Revolution is highly recommended.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Marguerite A. Peeters directs Dialogue Dynamics, a Brussels-based institute specializing in the analysis of political and cultural developments at the level of global governance. She has authored several books on the globalization of the Western cultural revolution, the gender revolution and postmodernity.

 

See the EWTN interview with Jesús Colina entitled “In the Wake of Cultural Revolution” (June 18, 2008).  

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Conscience and Power: The Contest for Civilization in the West

by Dr. Richard Bishirjian

Conscience and Power examines how civilization in “the West” arose after the fall of the Roman Empire and has grappled ever after with a desire of citizens of nations of Western civilization for justice and the necessities of political order. This contest between Western man’s sense of justice and the rule of nation states has had consequences for democracy in America and in the centers of Western Europe, and the reason is that Roman religion was replaced by a new truth of social order–the order of Christendom. Consciousness of that new Christian faith defined a new era, from the 5th century to the 14th century, which historians call “First Europe,” during which period Christian monastics and theologians celebrated faith in Christ and replaced the old order with a new tradition. Their “conscience” contested with monarchs who resisted their claim to dominance and gave us insight into the truths of Christendom. What we in the West inherited from ancient Israel, the ancient Greeks and Romans and an enduring Christendom formed during the Middle Ages, however, is no longer central to the lives of citizens of Western nation states. Because the death of everything living is preceded by a natural process of birth, growth and senescence, death is an end point for all “being things.” Conscience and Power asks, therefore, how much longer can democracies in the West live before they, too, meet their end?

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TESTIMONIALS

“One of the most significant books of our age.” –Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard J. Bishirjian was Founding President and Professor of Government at Yorktown University from 2000-2016. He earned a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Bishirjian was Gerhart Niemeyer’s teaching assistant at Notre Dame. He was an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Dallas in Texas, chairman of the Political Science Department at the College of New Rochelle in New York and founder of Yorktown University where he served as President and Professor of government from 2000-2016.

He served as a political appointee in the Reagan Administration and in the Administration of George H. W.  Bush.

He is the editor of A Public Philosophy Reader and author of three books, The Development of Political Theory, The Conservative Rebellion and The Coming Death and Future Resurrection of American Higher Education. His most recent work, “Coda,” is a novel published by En Route Books. His most recent three scholarly studies are Ennobling Encounters, Rise and Fall of the American Empire, and Conscience and Power. Ennobling Encounters was published by En Route Books in September, 2021.

Dr. Bishirjian’s essays have been published in Forbes, The Political Science Reviewer, Modern Age, Review of Politics, Chronicles, the American Spectator and The Imaginative Conservative.

For the full story, see Dick’s website.

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Clerical Sexual Misconduct, Vol 2: A Foundational Conversation

Editors — Jane F. Adolphe and Robert L. Fastiggi

TESTIMONIALS

“What is truly remarkable about this book is the breadth and depth of the analysis of the entire sex abuse crisis from men and women possessed of deep Catholic identity and firmly committed to authentic Catholic renewal.” -Jeffrey Mirus, CatholicCulture.org

This book “belongs on the shelf of every chancery, seminary library and rectory.” It “examines the causes of the crisis, both inside and outside the Catholic Church, such as the role that cultural Marxism has played in undermining the family and sexual morality; the impact of the now-debunked Kinsey reports on human sexuality; and the pernicious theories of Wilhelm Reich that undergirded the sexual revolution of the 1960s…. While comprehensive and packed with scholarly footnotes, Clerical Sexual Misconduct offers an engrossing read, accessible to anyone who cares about cleansing the scourge of clerical sexual abuse from the church and in preventing its resurgence.”-Deborah Gyapong, Catholic News Service

“Over the last decade I have read several books on the subject, often written by disgruntled Catholics or liberals who loathe the Church and who exploit this very real issue to further their own agenda. What I felt was required was an in-depth analysis in order to bring about an authentic Catholic renewal. I believe that this is the book that was needed…. In summary, this is by far the best book on the subject.” -Dr. Pravin Thevathasan, Catholic Medical Quarterly

This book “is valued not only because of its scholarship, but also for the commitment to Catholic orthodoxy of its contributors, who realize that any remedies must be faithful to the liberating truths Jesus has revealed to his Church in particular and to mankind in general…. Clerical Sexual Misconduct serves as a reference work to understand better the key factors that enabled the scandal to develop over time, and also proposes measures to ensure it never happens again.” -Thomas J. Nash, The Catholic World Report

Jane F. Adolphe

Dr. Jane F. Adolphe is called to practice law in the State of New York, USA and Province of Alberta, Canada with degrees in civil law (LL.B/B.C.L)  and canon law (J.C.L/J.C.D). As a Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law (AMSL), in Naples, Florida (2001 – present), with an expertise in international human rights law, from 2003 she worked for the Holy See (Pope), Secretariat of State, Section for Relations for States, first as an outside legal advisor for Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, then in 2011, during the final years of Pope Benedict VI’s papacy, as an inside expert on international human rights issues within the United Nations System in Vatican City State, and continued into the papacy of Pope Francis, until her resignation in 2020.

While working for the Holy See, in her capacity as Professor of Law, Adolphe established the International Center on Law, Life, Faith and Family (ICOLF), in 2014, as a forum for Catholic jurists guided by the Holy See’s Charter on the Rights of the Family. It was renamed the International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF), in 2021.  Under the auspices of this forum, Adolphe has organized multiple international conferences on topics of relevance for the Holy See, some of which have resulted in the publication of books that she has co-edited: Clerical Sexual Misconduct: An Interdisciplinary Analysis (Cluny: 2020); Equality and Non-discrimination: Catholic Roots, Current Challenges (Pickwick: 2019); The Persecution of Christians in the Middle East: Prevention, Prohibition, Prosecution (Angelico Press: 2018).

Robert L. Fastiggi

Dr. Robert L. Fastiggi, Bishop Kevin M. Britt Chair of Dogmatic Theology and Christology, has been at Sacred Heart Major Seminary since 1999. Prior to coming to Detroit, he taught at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas from 1985-1999. Dr. Fastiggi received an A.B. in Religion (summa cum laude) from Dartmouth College in 1974; a M.A. in Theology from Fordham University in 1976; and a Ph.D. in Historical Theology from Fordham in 1987. During his time at Sacred Heart, Dr. Fastiggi has taught courses in Ecclesiology, Christology, Mariology, church history, sacramental theology, and moral theology. He is a member of the Society for Catholic Liturgy, the Mariological Society of America, the International Marian Association, and a member of the Pontifical Marian Academy International (P.A.M.I).

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The Necessity of Knowledge for Love and Its Application

by Fr. Paul Ezinando

In this work, Fr. Paul Ezinando not only demonstrates that knowledge is a necessity for love, but he also shows that proper knowledge promotes love. Following the argument of St. Augustine, who wrote, “you cannot love what you don’t know,” and using St. Thomas Aquinas’ philosophical proofs of the existence of God, Fr. Ezinando demonstrates that knowledge of God, self-knowledge, and knowledge of neighbour are the gateways to the love of God, proper self-love, and the love of neighbour, respectively. In this way, this book provides a clear demonstration of the connection between knowledge and love. 

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TBA

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fr. Paul Ezinando is a priest of the Archdiocese of Bertoua. He has his first degree in philosophy from Bigard memorial Seminary Enugu Nigeria and his master’s degree in dogmatic theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut, USA. Presently, he is a formator and a spiritual director at St. John Baptist spiritual year seminary Doume, East Cameroon.

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La Cattiva Condotta Sessuale del Clero: Un’Analisi Interdisciplinare

A cura di Jane F. Adolphe e Ronald J. Rychlak
Traduzione italiana di Marco Toti

GIORNALI

“50 Homosexual Italian Priests Come Out.” (2022, December 20.) FSSPX News. Clicca qui. Per Domani, clicca qui.

RECENSIONI

Clicca qui per le recensioni.

APPROVAZIONI

“Ciò che è veramente notevole in questo libro è l’ampiezza e la profondità dell’analisi dell’intera crisi degli abusi sessuali da parte di uomini e donne in possesso di una profonda identità cattolica e fermamente impegnati nell’autentico rinnovamento cattolico”. –Jeffrey Mirus, CatholicCulture.org

Questo libro “appartiene allo scaffale di ogni cancelleria, biblioteca del seminario e canonica”. Esso “esamina le cause della crisi, sia all’interno che all’esterno della Chiesa cattolica, come il ruolo che il marxismo culturale ha svolto nell’indebolire la famiglia e la moralità sessuale; l’impatto degli ormai smascherati rapporti Kinsey sulla sessualità umana; teorie di Wilhelm Reich che hanno sostenuto la rivoluzione sessuale degli anni ’60… Pur essendo completo e ricco di note accademiche, La Cattiva Condotta Sessuale del Clero offre una lettura avvincente, accessibile a chiunque abbia a cuore di ripulire il flagèllo degli abusi sessuali da parte del clero e di prevenirne la recrudescenza” – Deborah Gyapong, Catholic News Service

“Nell’ultimo decennio ho letto diversi libri sull’soggetto, spesso scritti da cattolici scontenti o liberali che detestano la Chiesa e che sfruttano questo problema molto reale per portare avanti la propria agenda. Quello che sentivo era necessario era un’analisi approfondita in per realizzare un autentico rinnovamento cattolico. Credo che questo sia il libro che ci voleva… In sintesi, questo è di gran lunga il miglior libro sull’soggetto». – Dr. Pravin Thevathasan,Catholic Medical Quarterly

Questo libro “è apprezzato non solo per la sua erudizione, ma anche per l’impegno per l’ortodossia cattolica dei suoi collaboratori, i quali comprendono che qualsiasi rimedio deve essere fedele alle verità liberatrici che Gesù ha rivelato alla sua Chiesa in particolare e all’umanità in generale. … La Cattiva Condotta Sessuale del Clero funge da opera di riferimento per comprendere meglio i fattori chiave che hanno permesso allo scandalo di svilupparsi nel tempo e propone anche misure per garantire che non accada mai più..” – Thomas J. Nash, The Catholic World Report

Jane F. Adolphe

at Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida on Wednesday, January 26, 2022. Lisa Johnston | ljohnston@avemarialaw.edu | Twitter: @aeternusphoto

Jane F. Adolphe laureata in diritto civile (LLB/BCL) e diritto canonico (JCL/JCD), è professoressa di diritto presso l’Ave Maria School of Law, a Naples, in Florida, con esperienza in diritto internazionale dei diritti umani. Dal 2003 al 2011 lei ha lavorato presso la Sezione per i Rapporti con gli Stati della Segreteria di Stato in Vaticano come consulente legale esterno dei Papi Giovanni Paolo II e Benedetto XVI. Poi nel 2011, durante gli ultimi anni del pontificato di Papa Benedetto XVI, lei ha prestato servizio come esperta interna lavorando nello Stato della Città del Vaticano, e ha continuato in questa posizione nel pontificato di Papa Francesco, fino alle sue dimissioni nel 2020. La prof.ssa Adolphe ha co-curato diversi libri: The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East: Prevention, Prohibition, and Prosecution; ; Equality and Non-Discrimination: Catholic Roots, Current Challenges;  e St. Paul, the Natural Law, and Contemporary Legal Theory.

Ronald J. Rychlak

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Ronald J. Rychlak è un illustre professore di diritto presso l’Università del Mississippi negli Stati Uniti e anche consigliere giuridico della delegazione della Santa Sede presso le Nazioni Unite. Ha conseguito la laurea in giurisprudenza presso la Vanderbilt University ed è autore di numerosi libri tra cui Hitler, the War, and the Pope.

Marco Toti

Nato a Roma nel 1976, è dottore di ricerca ed abilitato professore associato di “Storia delle Religioni”. Ha pubblicato vari lavori concernenti argomenti di mistica e religioni comparate, con particolare attenzione al metodo di orazione esicasta, oltre che alcune questioni inerenti alla storia intellettuale, al “lessico dell’ascesi” in epoca tardo-antica, alla metapolitica, agli anni ’60 in prospettiva storico-culturale (Concilio Vaticano II, “tradizionalismo”, “nuovi movimenti religiosi”); tra i suoi lavori più significativi si ricordano “La preghiera e l’immagine. L’esicasmo tardo-bizantino (XIII-XIV secolo)”, Milano 2012 (Jaca Book), e “’Un atomo di fuoco’. Forme e dinamiche culturali di Occidente: storia delle religioni, tradizione, ermeneutica”, Rimini 2019 (Il Cerchio). Ha tenuto conferenze in occasione di numerosi Congressi nazionali e internazionali; ha inoltre vissuto e effettuato ricerche in Francia, USA, Marocco, Grecia e nel Sudest asiatico. Attualmente insegna materie umanistiche presso alcuni istituti superiori. http://independent.academia.edu/MarcoToti

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