Shane Schaetzel †☧ (@RealClearCatholic)

This is Pine Tree Politics... 🌲 1. Restoration of Christ’s Kingship — Public recognition of the true religion; laws aligned with natural/divine law. 2. Subsidiarity in practice — Strengthen family, local communities, and intermediate institutions against centralization. 3. Human dignity and moral order — Protect life, family, religious liberty (properly understood), and combat relativism/secularism. 4. Economic justice — Widespread property ownership, just wages, dignity of work, critique of both predatory capitalism and socialism. 5. National common good — Sovereignty, controlled immigration, economic nationalism where prudent, patriotism as natural virtue. 6. Solidarity with the vulnerable — Direct aid, education, healthcare informed by subsidiarity. (not statist defaults). 7. International relations — Subsidiarity globally; just war, no world government overriding nations/Church. 8. Promoting fertility and children’s education — Robust pro-natal policies (family tax credits, housing support, maternity/paternity incentives) to reverse demographic decline and strengthen the domestic society as the foundation of the common good. Prioritize parental rights and authority in education (homeschooling protections, school choice, curriculum aligned with natural law and faith). Resist state indoctrination; promote classical, virtue-based formation that integrates reason and revelation for the next generation’s flourishing under Christ.