WCAT Radio The Open Door (July 12, 2019)

This week on The Open Door we explore how a commitment to the common good calls for ecological conversion and a restructuring of our political economy. Our special guests are Frank Morris and Joe Schriner. Both are active members of the American Solidarity Party, as well as “frank and candid” commentators on the established disorder.
We tackle the following questions—and more!
1. Why is the common good central to Catholic Social Teaching?
2. What links the principle of subsidiarity with distributism?
3. How does the principle of solidarity call for the ecological conversion of the economy?
4. Why is consumerism a threat to the common good?
5. How does our fossil fuel political economy endanger the common good?
6. What models can help us replace the fossil fuel political economy?
7. Why is it politically inconvenient to admit the obvious: the Iraq war was largely about oil?
8. Just what is cybernetics and what distinctive threats does it pose?
Please listen in!