Donna Berenguera in tears was kissing her 16 year old moaning son with a body covered with cruel sores causing him unrelieved torture at the door of death with Archbishop Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada i n armor near by in a chapel. Berenguera: Our Lady of Ona, I beg you Holy Mary for the life of my son. Berenguera then is quiet with her hands folded in prayer and her head on her hands and then she looks at her son smiling. The sores are gone and she weeps for joy seeing Fernando sitting up cured and she makes the sign of the cross and says: Thank you, Mother and Queen of Heaven, I can see his soul is changed for I see his eyes now shine with a deep light that is proof that you have accepted him as your son. Fernando smiling says to his mother: Thank you mother, Holy Mary has cured me because you consecrated me to her and to her Son, the King of Kings. Fernando relies: I will build in my land a very great church and will call it Holy Mary...
Michael Novak and Paul Adams: Social Justice Is Not What You Think It Is (2015) Novak and Adams aim to reclaim the term "social justice" from its modern association with progressive state-run programs and redefine it according to its roots in Catholic social teaching (CST). Amazon.com Amazon.com +1 Social Justice as Virtue: The authors argue that social justice is not a state of affairs or a legislative policy, but a personal virtue—a habit of acting justly with others. The "Social" Element: They define the "social" aspect as the skill and habit of forming associations (community-building) to pursue the common good, acting in the "vast space" between the individual and the state. Alternative to State Power: The book challenges the view that social justice requires government action, instead presenting it as a way to nurture personal responsibility and local community action, thereby countering the growth of an unchecked state. Theological Roots: They trace the concept back to Pope Pius XI, who introduced it as a virtue in the 1931 encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, meant to address the needs of an industrial world. Critique of Misuse: Novak argues that the term is often used vaguely as an ideological weapon to brand opponents as immoral, reducing complex social issues to partisan, state-centered solutions. Amazon.com Amazon.com +4
Based on the sources provided, here is an overview of the arguments made by Michael Novak and Paul Adams in Social Justice Is Not What You Think It Is and the perspectives discussed by Matthew Shadle regarding Centesimus Annus . Michael Novak and Paul Adams: Social Justice Is Not What You Think It Is (2015) Novak and Adams aim to reclaim the term "social justice" from its modern association with progressive state-run programs and redefine it according to its roots in Catholic social teaching (CST). Amazon.com +1 Social Justice as Virtue: The authors argue that social justice is not a state of affairs or a legislative policy, but a personal virtue —a habit of acting justly with others. The "Social" Element: They define the "social" aspect as the skill and habit of forming associations (community-building) to pursue the common good, acting in the "vast space" between the individual and the state. Alternative to State Powe...
