A thoughtful take on Caritas in Veritate for evangelicals

...from the former president of the Evangelical Theological Society, Francis Beckwith, who recently returned to Catholicism; you can read it here.

I thought this was an especially important point given that we have squeezed so much substance out of Christianity to make it fit into those confining spaces known as "left" and "right":

The categories that dominate our public discourse in the United States—left, right, liberal, conservative, etc.—play no role in illuminating the Church's social doctrines or the message of Caritas in Veritate. This is why it is a fool's errand to attempt to artificially divide Catholic social teachings into its left and right wings, as if the Church's rejection of economic libertarianism and the proclamation of the principles of subsidiary and solidarity are inconsistent with support for male-female marriage and the sanctity of human life