Notre Dame Law Professor Criticizes New Catholic Scholars Statement Released Day Before Vice President Debate - " On All of Our Shoulders "

The day before the Vice Presidential debate a group of Cathoic Scholars have released this statement  On All of Our Shoulders:  A Catholic Call to Protect the Endangered Common Good",

Prof Rick Garnett  of Notre Dame talks about what he think is right and also a tad misguided in this statement here.

I think Garnett is largely right.

I do believe there is some justifible criticism from the the Catholic  Left  that too many conservatives abuse the term Subsidiarity at times. Subsidiarity of course cannot be use as a hammer in opposition to every Federal program.

On the flip side the Catholic left or progressive factions have not done the cause of Catholic social teaching much good wither this year. As Garnett points out just throwing out Ayn Rand and calling everything Libertarian is not helpful either.

The end result being I suspect that very few Catholics and indeed no one else is really going to take Catholic Social Teaching seriously sadly outside the blogs of America, Commonweal, First Thoughts , and other  places in the Catholic Ghetto where we are largely talking and "yelling" amongst each other.

Thought this statement will get a headline or two I think it will in the end just be part of the background noise.