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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.

The Importance of Our Physical Environment
In his desire to have and to enjoy rather than to be and to grow, man consumes the resources of the earth and his own…
How Can Goods be Universal?
YES – there is a right to private property…AND – human nature can lead to the distortion of that right. The right to private property…
Culture: The Most Important Structure of Society
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…
What Exactly is the Preferential Option for the Poor?
“[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…
The Often Misunderstood Right to Private Property
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…
The Common Good is a Result, not a Principle
The “common good” is a critical concept and – an aspirational result: “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or…

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