Sins of the Wallet

The National Catholic Register has put together a collection of essays addressing the mulitple causes of the financial market meltdown from a moral perspective. Includes an essay by Supreme Knight Carl Anderson.

"Economic hard times are always times of soul-searching, and the global economic crisis even brought a response from Pope Benedict XVI, who said on Oct. 6 that the crisis shows the importance of building our lives on the firm foundation of the word of God. “We see it now in the fall of the great banks,” the Pope said. “This money disappears; it is nothing — and in the same way, all these things, which lack a true reality to depend on, and are elements of a second order.” The Register felt it was important to look at the moral dimensions of the economic downturn and asked several prominent Catholic thinkers, “What sins got us into this mess, and what virtues are required to get us out of it?” Their thoughts follow. " Read more...

Supreme Knight Carl Anderson: On Pro Life and the Vote

Supreme Knight Carl Andersons offers commentary on the election and pro-life in advance of Tuesday's general election. Also included, new videos from Supreme on defense of marriage and pro life:

Because of the importance of the pro-life issue in this year’s U.S. elections, I have decided to reprint here excerpts from my annual report to the Supreme Convention: Read more...

Supreme Knight's open letter to Sen. Biden

Brothers beware! You may have noticed efforts by the political class to attack Church beliefs by trying to redefine them, the latest being Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden. In an open letter to U.S. Sen. Joe Biden published Friday in several major newspapers, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson challenged Biden's assertion that Catholic teaching on abortion was not clear. He appealed to Biden "as a Catholic who acknowledges that life begins at conception," to protect the inalienable right to life. Read the letter.