by capp | May 5, 2021 | All, Preferential Option for the Poor
Join our Newsletter What is the Church’s “Preferential Option for the Poor”? by CAPP-USA An important background to any Catholic discussion of the preferential option for the poor, poverty, and development is “the Church’s love for the poor...
by capp | Apr 29, 2021 | All, Right to Private Property
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...
by capp | Apr 22, 2021 | All, The Common Good
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...
by capp | Apr 20, 2021 | All, Subsidiarity, What is CST?
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...
by capp | Mar 25, 2021 | All, What is CST?
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...
