First Things RSS Feed - Richard L. Wood https://www.firstthings.com/author/richard-l-wood en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:57 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/richard-l-wood 60 In Defense of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2011/11/in-defense-of-the-campaign-for-human-development https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2011/11/in-defense-of-the-campaign-for-human-development Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:01:00 -0500 In his recent essay for First Things , Fr. Val J. Peter insinuates Saul Alinsky into everything the Catholic Campaign for Human Development does. But both in concept and in practice the Campaign is in fact rooted firmly in Church teaching, both its moral principles and its social doctrine. Although Fr. Peter suggests CCHD substitutes “social justice” linked to institutional change for “charity in the traditional sense,” Pope Benedict XVI in his last encyclical makes clear that both are central Catholic commitments:

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