Rerum Novarum was groundbreaking in addressing the struggles of the working class and societal challenges during the Industrial Revolution.
Government and Politics Articles
A Short Course on Subsidiarity
This principle of subsidiarity is crucial to fully understanding Catholic social teaching and, while we may have heard the term “subsidiarity” before, we really need to understand what it means.
Democracy Quotes that Will Make You Think
Democracy is “the most effective historical instrument for ensuring its own future in a way befitting to human beings.” (Pope Benedict XVI)
For the immigrant in the U.S. illegally, Catholic Social Teaching offers a clear moral framework for maintaining right relationship even amid legal limbo.…
Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them.…
Fleeing violence, seeking better employment, growing up as a dreamer — these are the stories of immigrants.…
We are witnessing the breakdown caused by an "increasingly stark disagreement between Democrats and Republicans...about more than just politics and policies."…
Rooted in the core principles of human dignity, CST offers a constructive vision for our own time of rapid transformation.…
The lack of housing...should be seen as a summing-up of shortcomings: economic, social, cultural or simply human in nature.…
List of Articles
- 10 Questions About Catholic Social Teaching
- 5 Surprising Ideas from Catholic Social Teaching
- A Deeper Examination of Human Dignity
- A Divided Government and the Political Divide
- A List of Human Rights According to the Church
- A Rerum Novarum Summary
- A Short Course on Subsidiarity
- Affordable Housing and Catholic Social Teaching
- Catholic Quotes about the Church's Social Teaching
- Catholic Social Teaching is not Left or Right
- Catholic Social Teaching is not Left or Right w/z quiz test
- Catholic Social Teaching, Democracy, and Free Markets
- Catholic Social Teaching: Antidote to Extremism
- Democracy Quotes that Will Make You Think
- Faith Formation in Catholic Social Teaching
- Freedom Quotes from the Catholic Church
- God Quotes from Catholic Social Teaching
- How to be a Real Social Justice Warrior?
- Human Rights on Which the State Must be Ordered
- Human Rights Quotes from the Church
- Immigrant Rights and Duties
- Immigrant Stories
- Immigration Quotes from the Church
- Immigration Reform and Catholic Social Teaching
- International Peace
- Living Catholic Social Teaching in a Fragmented World
- Quotes about Government
- Socialist Countries and Welfare States
- The 2025 Government Shutdown
- The Gig Economy and Rerum Novarum
- The Government Must Defend a Culture of Family
- The Role of the State and Economic Activity
- Top 10 Pope Benedict XVI Quotes on Politics
- What Does Catholic Social Teaching Say About a "Welfare State"?
- What is a "Just" Distribution of Wealth?
- When there is No Path to Citizenship
