Join our Newsletter Catholic Social Teaching and the Right to Private Property: The Church’s Often Misunderstood Position by CAPP-USA In 1931 Pope Pius XI said the dialogue around the Church’s pronouncements on the right to private property was...
Join our Newsletter The Common Good: a Result – not a “Principle” by CAPP-USA The “common good” is a critical concept and – an aspirational result: “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as...
Join our Newsletter Why is the Principle of Subsidiarity so Important? by CAPP-USA This principle of subsidiarity is crucial to fully understanding Catholic social teaching and, while we may have heard the term “subsidiarity” before, we really...
Join our Newsletter 10 Catholic Social Teaching Questions by CAPP-USA 1. What is Catholic Social Teaching? “Catholic social teaching seeks to apply the essence of Christian moral principles to life in society. It is not an economic or...
Join our Newsletter Pope Francis – An Economic Reformer and Provocateur by Joseph F.X. Zahra “Do not expect peace in society without seeking the common good.” “More than a tinge of urgency can be detected…in Pope...