# catholic social teaching (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover catholic social teaching. Page: Feed: --- ## [An Argument about Teaching, Technology, and Being a Tool-Using (and Tool-Consuming) Species](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/an-argument-about-teaching-technology-and-being-a-tool-using-and-tool-consuming-species/) _2026-08-26 · Russell Arben Fox · Front Porch Republic_ An education in the human arts and sciences involves a present, embodied, non-automated engagement with art, ideas, and the written word. ## [Forming the Affections of Our Children](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/forming-the-affections-of-our-children/) _2026-08-25 · Paul Kearney · Front Porch Republic_ Children laugh, after all, long before they understand or speak words. ## [Anything Is Full of Everything: Songs About Spiritual Vision](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/anything-is-full-of-everything-songs-about-spiritual-vision/) _2026-08-24 · Michial Farmer · Front Porch Republic_ We’re listening to songs about spiritual vision this week, so get ready for some psychedelia and some songs that stretch out past the time you’re inclined to give them! Send your songs suggestions to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com. ## [A Statue of Icarus](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/a-statue-of-icarus/) _2026-08-24 · Geoffrey Kurtz · Front Porch Republic_ Albert Camus once wrote: “We must imagine Sisyphus happy.” I would rather imagine Icarus landing. ## [Dickinson, Texas, and Petrarch](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/dickinson-texas-and-petrarch/) _2026-08-22 · Jeffrey Bilbro · Front Porch Republic_ Michael Powell visits several cities where “harm reduction” has led to endemic drug use and many overdose deaths. ## [Silicon Svengali’s Artificial Intelligence](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/silicon-svengalis-artificial-intelligence/) _2026-08-21 · Teddy Macker · Front Porch Republic_ Remember: All Roads Lead to AI Accelerationism! Don’t Be Caught Flatfooted! ## [A Day in the Life of the Working Class](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-working-class/) _2026-08-20 · Joseph Palange · Front Porch Republic_ I don’t expect elite ideologues to get it, I just wish they’d stop flattening the problems of the working class into neat stories that serve their political projects. ## [Reading Catholic Social Teaching in Newark, New Jersey](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/reading-catholic-social-teaching-in-newark-new-jersey/) _2026-08-19 · Stephen G. Adubato · Front Porch Republic_ Papal warnings about over-centralization shed light on the trajectory of the politics of Newark, New Jersey. ## [They Chose Computer Farmer](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/they-chose-computer-farmer/) _2026-08-18 · Colin Gillette · Front Porch Republic_ In a culture that measures a young person’s success by the velocity with which they escape their hometown, I found myself questioning the script. ## [The Real Great Replacement](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/the-real-great-replacement/) _2026-08-17 · Matt Morrison · Front Porch Republic_ Unlike replacement, diminishment happens in a thousand different ways. ## [International money transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aRG6ufm2TiWx) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Send money to other countries and manage multi‑currency balances online. ## [Slashed and Torn: Songs About Anxiety](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/slashed-and-torn-songs-about-anxiety/) _2026-08-17 · Michial Farmer · Front Porch Republic_ Take an Ativan and listen to some songs about anxiety with me! Send your song suggestions to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com. ## [Data Centers, Orchards, and Bartleby](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/data-centers-orchards-and-bartleby/) _2026-08-15 · Jeffrey Bilbro · Front Porch Republic_ Molly Taft talks to Joe Allen and others in the roiling, grass-roots movement against data centers. ## [No Screens at Church](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/no-screens-at-church/) _2026-08-14 · Rebecca Skabelund · Front Porch Republic_ If you plop a screen in front of a child, it requires nothing of you other than handing over the device. ## [Exogenesis, Alexandria, and the Renewal of Language](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/exogenesis-alexandria-and-the-renewal-of-language/) _2026-08-13 · Tessa Carman · Front Porch Republic_ To plant and cultivate good seed is perhaps the best response to this reality. ## [Ask Thy Father](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/ask-thy-father/) _2026-08-12 · D.P. Curtin · Front Porch Republic_ The vast majority of the past has dissolved into a state of prehistory, forgotten because there was no one who thought it worthy of recording. ## [Saving the Soil Down Under](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/saving-the-soil-down-under/) _2026-08-11 · Kirk Wareham · Front Porch Republic_ Australia is a parched land where every drop of water is valued as gold.