In the first two-thirds of his classic defense of liberalism,
A Theory of Justice
, John Rawls operates with what he admits is a “thin” and “formal” account of the good. Each person pursues his own good, which is “determined by the rational plan of life that he would choose with deliberative rationality from the maximal class of plans,” but behind Rawls’s veil of ignorance, no one knows what his particular good is. Blind to their own future social station, desires, and convictions, the founders design a just society that will protect everyone’s right to define his own concept of good.
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and
