Christmas Eve, and Not Much to Say: For Now

Since it's Christmas Eve, I'm going 'off-schedule.'

Normally I'd have a post about some special topic ready for Monday morning. I've been giving my take on "Caritas in Veritate," one or two sections at a time, and plan to be back with more of that next week.

I may be back, later today or tomorrow, with something Christmas-oriented: then again, I may not. I'm focusing rather tightly on celebrating my Lord's birth, and hanging out with my family.

Right now, instead of the scheduled post, I've put together links to what I've written before about Christmas, social justice, and economics.

Social Justice? Economics? in a Religious Blog?!

Those last two terms, social justice and economics, may seem out of place in a "religious" blog. I don't think so, because I don't see a point in believing something without thinking that the belief mattered in 'real life.'

I'm not "political," in the sense that I claim that one person or party is always right, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool, a knave, or worse.

I've been identified as 'some conservative guy;' but I'm not. I'm Catholic. That means that I'm neither liberal nor conservative: and I'm certainly not "moderate." Not in the lukewarm, go-with-the-flow sense of that term.

"Social Justice" isn't the sort of ideologically-driven goofiness we've seen in America and elsewhere during much of the 20th century. Not from the Catholic Church's point of view.

• "Is the Church For Capitalism? Yes: and No"
  (March 13, 2010)
• "Conservative? Liberal? Democrat? Republican? No, I'm Catholic"
  (November 3, 2008)

Enough of that. Here are those more-or-less-related posts:

• Christmas
  • "Genesis to Luke: A Long Journey to Christmas"
    (December 23, 2012)
  • "Christmas in Cuba; The Pope's @Pontifex Twitter Account; News from Mars"
    (December 7, 2012)
    Particularly
    • Christmas in Cuba
  • "Advent, Seasonal Strangeness, and Me"
    (December 2, 2012)
  • " '...A Savior has been Born for You Who is Messiah and Lord...' "
    (December 25, 2011)
  • "Christmas: Mything the Point"
    (December 18, 2011)
• Social justice
  • " 'I Love Humanity - - - ' "
    (October 15, 2012)
  • "Development isn't a Four-Letter Word"
    (October 8, 2012)
  • "Individuals, the Common Good, and All That"
    (May 13, 2012)
  • " 'Human Costs Always Include Economic Costs' "
    (May 7, 2012)
    Particularly
    • Conservative? Liberal? Democratic? Republican?
    • Changing the World
  • "Upset Applecarts: A Hopeful Sign"
    (March 5, 2012)
    Particularly
    • Economic and Technological Progress: It's Not Enough
    • Politics, Ideologies, and Moving Ahead
• Economics
  • "An Ancient Brain, Politics, and Searching for Life on Mars"
    (October 12, 2012)
    Particularly
    • Paying for a 'Free Lunch'
  • " 'New Kinds of Enterprise' "
    (October 1, 2012)
  • "Generic Ethics"
    (September 3, 2012)
    Particularly
    • Beer, Bingo, and Environmental Awareness
    • Unethical 'Ethics'
    • Ethical, not Political
  • "The Status Quo Must Go"
    (July 30, 2012)
  • " 'Civilizing the Economy' "
    (June 18, 2012)