text: Thanks. This has been on my mind for a long time. Civics begins not with grandiose notions of love, nor the boring mundane of "county" but with the radical reality of interdependency,  the absolute necessity of "getting along"  for survival, peace, security. There is a remarkable continuity between the treatment of civility and its progress from orderliness to friendship to love between Aristotle (Ethics) and Jesus (I Corinthians 13). Our Church needs to spend the next 100 years putting Jesus back into real street talk and action. Empty calls upon "catholic social doctrine" that begins in institution rather than in civilization is divisive. It is no longer credible because it is rhetorical,  ideological and self-serving rather than real.  
  Our world needs that Church, that Jesus.