What if we refuse God's plan for us? Does God have a contingency plan? In one sense no, since God foresees everything, so it's not as though God is caught out by our refusal. But in another sense we can say that God has contingency plans.

God's plan for each of us is fully personal. We are not means to an end, but each of us is willed into existence by God for our own sake.

If God is a God of love, why is there so much wrong with the world? Why did God’s plan have to become a plan for our salvation?

God created the whole cosmos from nothing and bestowed an abundance of life on earth, a special garden, a paradise, in which he placed the first human beings.

This question sets the scene for the whole story of God’s plan to reveal himself to us. The answers given here will serve as an introduction to the whole course. All these matters, treated briefly in this introduction, will be treated in detail in later questions. Question 1 will be examined from nine different angles.

Understanding the relation between society and state is crucial to understanding many other issues, and is essential to understanding the principle of subsidiarity.

The principle of subsidiarity is one of the fundamental principles of Catholic Social Teaching. It is summarised in Chapter 4, Section 4 of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.

Welcome to the 3rd Millennium. The era and the journal! Many things in our world seemed to have reached a critical turning point. What should people of goodwill do?

What is the difference between conflict and competition? What is the connection between competition and cooperation?

People sometimes speak of a 'thick' or a 'thin' society, meaning one with either strong or weak communal bonds. Have we gone beyond 'thin' to anorexic?