Rerum Novarum was groundbreaking in addressing the struggles of the working class and societal challenges during the Industrial Revolution.
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Who is My Neighbor?
Our neighbors do not solely include our family, close friends, or those who live next door. ALL are our neighbors.
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Being made in the image of God means we share qualities with God! It implies we have a moral conscience, the capacity for understanding good and evil, the ability to love, reason, create, and choose freely.
"The first creation account shows the essential equality of men and women (cf. Gen 1:27-29)." (Pope Benedict XVI, 60)…
The Church sees a woman’s role as multifaceted and indispensable: equal in dignity to men, gifted with a “feminine genius”.…
"The challenge facing most societies is that of upholding, indeed strengthening, woman’s role in the family while at the same time making it possible for…
The Catholic Church does not have an official, comprehensive teaching on gun control, but she does on issues like human dignity, the common good and…
Advocates of euthanasia use terms like “freedom”, “compassion”, “choice”, “death with dignity”, and “the right to die” to mask the act with “a veil of…
Being made in the image of God means we share qualities with God! It implies we have a moral conscience, the capacity for understanding good…
Catholic social teaching is not a modern invention. It is rooted in Scripture, and these scripture quotes illustrate where the principles come from.…
Legitimate state authority has the right and the duty to protect the common good. However...…
"By its very nature, pornography denies the genuine meaning of human sexuality". (Pope St. John Paul II, 2)…
The Church's understanding of human rights is rooted in the fact that we are made in the image of God.…
"The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority."…
"Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable."…
“The Church reproves, as foreign to the mind of Christ, any discrimination.” (Pope St. Paul VI, 5)…
It often entails racist attitudes and behaviors of a minority group toward a majority group that historically was racist toward the minority.…
Health, is “a universal right which means that access to healthcare services cannot be a privilege.” - Pope Francis…
"Pornography is immoral and ultimately anti–social precisely because it is opposed to the truth about the human person". - Pope St. John Paul II…
Christian humanism is acknowledging our God-given dignity and our purpose to serve Him through our fellow man.…
"The Lord who made you...who formed you from the womb" (Isaiah 44). The Church interprets Scripture to mean precisely that our lives, fashioned by God…
"I always distinguish between what pastoral care is for people who have a different sexual orientation and what gender ideology is. They are two different…
“Sometimes we hear people say, ‘You Catholics do not accept abortion; it’s a problem with your faith’. No, the problem is pre-religious. Faith has nothing…
The Church has consistently taught that abortion is a grave evil and Pope Francis has, for his entire papacy, preached the same message.…
While U.S. Catholics are separated by thousands of miles, culture, and the night and day difference of war vs. peace, we must remember these Ukrainians…
“Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life”. However, “the…
Pope Leo XIII’s landmark encyclical Rerum Novarum was published during the tempestuous years of the Industrial Revolution, and as such was The Church’s first social…
When a firm makes a profit, this means that productive factors have been properly employed and corresponding human needs have been duly satisfied.” (Centesimus Annus,…
The sole reason for the existence of governments is to promote the Common Good.…
It is frustrating that we need to qualify a certain business or investment as being ‘socially responsible’. This qualification implies that most of the other…
Are any of these wages just? In 2020 Tim Cook was paid approximately $238 million as Apple’s CEO, Alex Rodriguez was paid $32 million as…
The Catholic Church’s view of human dignity springs from human agency and free will, with the further understanding that free will in turn springs from…
