Society of Catholic Social Scientists
Biographic Data
| ID | 6402103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Society of Catholic Social Scientists |
| GIVEN NAMES | Society of Catholic Social |
| FAMILY NAME | Scientists |
| SIGNATURE | SCIENTISTS S O C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 224 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 224 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Alienated America
Father Jozef Menken, MSC
This article examines the life and work of Fr. Jozef Menken, MSC, a Dutch Catholic missionary who worked in the Surigao district in the Philippines during the American colonial period. Fr. Menken’s story provides insights into the interplay between education, religion, and colonial power relations during this time. As a pastor in Cantilan, Fr. Menken faced numerous challenges in providing for the spiritual and educational needs of the local commu…
Why Is South Korea's Birth Dearth So Hard to Turn Around
News headlines in 2024 announced a high number of dog strollers sold in South Korea. Simultaneous news headlines also announced that South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world. Many factors went into this extraordinary if dubious distinction. Why did this happen and what are the consequences
Kenneth L. Grasso and Thomas F.X. Varacalli, editors, The Future of the Catholic Church in the American Political Order
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Phillip Campbell, In Pursuit of Wisdom
Vix Pervenit and Modern Finance
Usury is a contentious issue in Catholic theology, philosophy, and economics. The notion that the Church’s authoritative teaching on the subject has changed is often used to justify arguments for changing other teachings. Defining the term usury is also a challenge, given the complexity of modern finance. We summarize recent literature on the nature and permissibility of usury and add to this literature by examining modern financial contracts in …
Paul R. DeHart, The Social Contract in the Ruins
Ronald J. Pestritto, America Transformed
Character in the American Experience
Rod Dreher, Living in Wonder
In Memoriam
Martin Schlag and Boglárka Koller, editors, Rethinking Subsidiarity
Prudence, Jurisprudence, and the Supreme Court
Justices of the United States Supreme Court have prided themselves, especially in this age of textualism and originalism, on their fidelity to a-prudential decision-making. According to this view, what makes a judge good is his ability to interpret legal text free from any moral influence not intrinsic to the text or its author. This understanding is peculiar, given how virtue—and especially prudence—has been held since Aristotle’s day to be esse…
Douglas Groothuis. Beyond the Wager
The Standard Needed for Conservative Politicians
Too often, politicians who call themselves “conservatives” and say they oppose the destructive cultural trends of the current time do not seek to follow the course needed to truly seek to uphold moral truth and the great traditions of Western culture, which is what conservatism in its best sense is identified with. They do not understand that the standard for a politics that opposes these trends must be to vigorously confront those pushing them a…
Civility and the American Dream
John F. Quinn, The Rise of Newport’s Catholics
“Unruly but Self-Ordering”
D. C. Schindler, God and the City
The Unruly Character of the American People
Experience: An Unruly People is a partic- ularly good book, and from it I learned much about the history of America and the American character that is well worth knowing.In fact, I might incorporate some of it into my "Democracy in America" course in order to demonstrate the Tocquevillian observation of what democracy in America actually means and how it primarily manifests itself.The primary claim of the book is that the American character is un…
New Evangelization from the “Existential Peripheries”
This article reports on a study of the effectiveness of Solidarity Experiences Abroad Inc. (SEA), a Canadian Catholic-inspired NGO that organizes service trips to Latin America, for introducing young people coming from a highly secularized culture into a pro-religious one. It finds that exposure to the “existential periphery” of the Latin American believing poor, along with a religiously open host culture, respect for the moral conscience of part…
The Ivory Tower of Babel
This article explores the evolving missions of American universities over the past three decades, emphasizing the shift towards values such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Through the lens of Simon Sinek’s Start With Why, Émile Durkheim’s sociology of religion, and Jonathan Haidt’s analysis of university sacred values, we examine how universities over the past thirty years have tended to organize around one of two contrasting ideals: t…
Nd Annual National Meeting-Conference Schedule
Micah Watson and Carson Holloway, editors, Film and Faith
Dehumanizing the Vulnerable
Integralist Social Science and Catholic Social Thought
This article relates the Integral sociology perspective of Pitirim A. Sorokin to the teaching of the Catholic Church regarding faith and science. It begins with a summary of the theoretical structure of Integralism and proceed to a discussion of its historical roots in Russian Christian philosophy, especially the tradition of Intuitivism. I conclude that although Integralism is generally consistent with Catholic doctrine, it does not deal with ce…
The Ethics of Speculation in the Works of Oswald von Nell-Breuning
Jeremy Beer, The Philanthropic Revolution
History and Hagiography
Restoring the Rightful Place of the Supreme Court in American Government
The Return of the Sacral King
In Pagans & Christians in the City, Steven D. Smith argues that in contrast to ancient Rome, ancient Christianity, following Judaism, located the sacred outside the world, desacralizing the cosmos and everything in it—including the political order. It thereby introduced a political dualism and potentially contending allegiances. Although Smith’s argument is right so far as it goes, it underplays the role of Christianity’s immanent dimension in su…
Reflections of an Editor
Society of Catholic Social Scientists 27th Annual National Meeting-Conference
Lord Acton’s “Organic” Liberalism and His Best Practical Regime
This article focuses on a forgotten evolutionary trend of liberalism clearly visible in Lord Acton’s writing. According to him, liberalism has roots not only in the theories of early modern thinkers but also in political practice, as seen in English and American political regimes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The first—doctrinaire liberalism—aims at changing the political order by appealing to higher principles and resorts to socia…
Leo Clarke, Man and the Economy
The Editor's Space
A Personal Reflection as the First Editor-in-Chief of the Catholic Social Science Review
Conservatism and the Republican Party on Economics
A. James McAdams, Vanguard of the Revolution
Humanae Vitae
Two years ago (2018) was the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Humanae Vitae. It was also the year Pope Paul VI was canonized a saint of the Catholic Church. The Pope who was once vilified for writing the encyclical has now become the Pope raised to the altar. We know what has become of the Pope, but what is to become of his encyclical? This article examines what was occurring at the time of the encyclical’s release and what it has been …
David G. Bonagura, Jr., Steadfast in Faith
In Defense of Christian Exceptionalism
Steven D. Smith persuasively shows that paganism and Christianity are in a culture war that spans two thousand years. Throughout his book, he shows that Christianity is the exceptional religion in three ways. First, Christianity is more authentically open to philosophy than paganism. Second, Christianity does not sacralize the State. Third, Christianity provides a more fulfilling understanding of sexual ethics. Despite the exceptionalism of Chris…
Leadership Lessons from the Court of St. Fernando
This article analyzes the leadership of a medieval treatise on leadership written at the request of Saint Fernando III of Castile in the thirteen century. We investigate how the conceptualization of leadership is similar and different from our modern approaches. We find that the medieval leadership source had stronger Catholic ontological and epistemological underpinnings although it remained hostage to prejudices and misconceptions of its time. …
The Catholic Apololgists for Socialism Should Read the Social Encyclicals
L. Mickey Fenzel and Melodie Wyttenback, editors, Responding to the Call for Educational Justice
Jill Lepore, These Truths
Saint John Paul II on Conscience and Truth
Two areas of moral theology where many misunderstand Catholic teaching and find themselves deviating from traditional moral norms are conscience and truth. Many find conscience to be a means through which one can reshape ethical judgments, and truth to be derived from one’s own conscience. The model for an authentic understanding of conscience and the reality of universal moral norms is found in the writings and preaching of Saint John Paul II. T…
America, Biblical Religion, and Covenantalism
Steven D. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City is an important and unique contribution to the vast literature on the American culture war. Smith’s distinction between immanent and transcendent religion refines and deepens James Davidson Hunter’s famous analysis of this conflict. As illuminating as this volume is, however, it fails to fully appreciate the religious dimension of the American founding. Specifically, Smith does not acknowledge o…
James M. Patterson, Religion in the Public Square
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