To Reverend Michel Schooyans,
Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve
It is a pleasure for me personally to address these cordial thanks for sending me, in filial homage, your book entitled La dérive totalitaire du libéralisme.
In this study, you have the merit of presenting a personal analysis and of explaining clearly the consequences of an organization of life in society which would reduce the common good to an ensemble of economic and material relationships, to the detriment of all humanist, cultural and religious considerations.
May your pertinent analyses, supported by competent personalities, lead your readers — especially Christian ones — to restore everywhere in the world a social justice worthy of the name, by means of public and private institutions capable of promoting the dignity of persons and respect for communities! To this ardent wish, I am happy to join a special Apostolic Benediction for you, those dear to you as well as your collaborators.
From the Vatican, December 9, 1991
John Paul Papa II
Hello, and welcome! The 2008 housing crisis woke me up to the fact that there is something gravely wrong with the way we have organized (or failed to organize) our society. Since then I have been searching for answers to my two fold question, “Where did we go wrong and how can we make it right again?” I created this blog to catalog the resources and natural law philosophies that have been lost on a cultural level which lead to liberty & freedom (occasionally I’ll add something from the Super-Natural Law too). Fulton J. Sheen is my hero but I’ve discovered a lot of other great authors as well!
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“Liberty is not the right to do whatever I please, nor is liberty the necessity of doing whatever the dictator dictates; rather liberty is the right to do what I ought. In these three words: “please,” “must,” and “ought” are given the choices facing the modern world. Of the three we choose “ought.”
That little word ought signifies that man is free. Fire must be hot, ice must be cold, but a man ought to be good. “Ought” implies morality, i.e., a moral power distinct from a physical power.”
~Fulton Sheen, “Freedom Under God” chapter 3
Interplanetary Dust 