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2 unusual facts about Common good


Common Good

Among the leaders who have participated in NewTalk discussions are New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, and former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker.

Public weal

Common good, the notion of high quality of life for people in general



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Alexia Kelley

Kelley co-authored A Nation for All: How the Catholic Vision of the Common Good Can Save America from the Politics of Division with Catholics United director Chris Korzen.

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) is a non-partisan, Roman Catholic, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization in the United States, which aims to promote "the fullness of the Catholic social tradition in the public square".

Eric Sapp

Sapp was a senior partner at Common Good Strategies (CGS), a firm that managed the faith outreach and messaging for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, US Senators Bob Casey, Jr., Sherrod Brown, Governors Ted Strickland, Jennifer Granholm, and Kathleen Sebelius, Representative Heath Shuler, and the Michigan, Kansas, and Oregon state Democratic Parties.

Franz-Josef Hermann Bode

Courage-Preis - By the city of Bad Iburg,awarded to the best contibutor to the common good

Michael J. Sandel

Michael Sandel gave the 2009 Reith Lectures on "A New Citizenship" on BBC Radio, addressing the 'prospect for a new politics of the common good'.

Political faction

Similarly, in the tenth installment of the Federalist Papers, James Madison defines a faction as "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." In plain English this is a group that pursues self-interest at the expense of the common good.

Wm. Stage

His photographs have appeared in multiple works, including the cover photograph on the Oxford University Press book, For the Common Good (2002).

Youth Time

The jury of the forum included: Vladimir Yakunin, the Founding President of the World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations"; Kamran Mofid, the founder of “Globalisation for the Common Good” initiative; Fearghas O'Beara, the Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of European Parliament; Martin Kugler, the founder and director of “Kairos Consulting” nonprofit organizations; Calvina Fay, the executive director of the "Drug Free America" Foundation.