Social justice is what results when “associations or individuals…obtain what is their due, according to their nature and their vocation.”
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The Government Must Defend a Culture of Family
The Church teaches that a government must protect the family. But the Church is also very clear on the State’s limits.
Top Magisterial Quotes about Family
Here is a list of family quotes, both long and short, from the Magisterium of the Church that never fail to inspire and encourage us.
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Pope St. John Paul II established the need to maintain a vibrant and critical interaction among economics, culture, and politics, emphasizing that culture is the most important: “All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.”
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“[T]hose oppressed by poverty are the object of a preferential love on the part of the Church which, since her origin…has not ceased to work for their relief, defense, and liberation” (CCC, 2448)
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It's misunderstood primarily because of the inability to differentiate between the “twofold character of ownership”: (Pope Pius XI) As Pope Leo XIII made clear: “The right of property is distinct from its use.”
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The “common good” is a critical concept and – an aspirational result: “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily”. (CCC, 1906)
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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.
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Catholic social teaching seeks to apply the essence of Christian moral principles to life in society. It is not an economic or political program, but it offers a powerful way of thinking about what the common good requires.
