Catholic Social Teaching insists on both compassion and responsibility, on both the dignity of immigrants and the legitimate concerns of the political community.
Subsidiarity Articles
When there is No Path to Citizenship
For the immigrant in the U.S. illegally, Catholic Social Teaching offers a clear moral framework for maintaining right relationship even amid legal limbo.
Immigrant Rights and Duties
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.…
If someone entered or stayed in the United States undocumented, have they committed a serious sin?…
Rooted in the core principles of human dignity, CST offers a constructive vision for our own time of rapid transformation.…
Catholic Social Teaching (CST) offers a clear and principled framework for understanding school choice, emphasizing three key points.…
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…
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…
List of Articles
- 10 Questions About Catholic Social Teaching
- 5 Surprising Ideas from Catholic Social Teaching
- A Divided Government and the Political Divide
- A Short Course on Subsidiarity
- Bible Quotes that Establish Catholic Social Teaching
- Cardinal Parolin's Address to CAPP, December 2021
- Cardinal Tomasi's Address to CAPP, December 2021
- Catholic Quotes about the Church's Social Teaching
- Catholic Social Teaching is not Left or Right
- Catholic Social Teaching vs. Secular Social Theory
- Gun Control and Self-Defense
- Immigrant Rights and Duties
- Immigrant Stories
- Immigration Quotes from the Church
- Immigration Reform and Catholic Social Teaching
- Is Undocumented Immigration Sinful?
- Living Catholic Social Teaching in a Fragmented World
- Quotes about Government
- School Choice and Catholic Social Teaching
- The Critical Importance of the Principle of Subsidiarity
- The Practical Value of Solidarity and Subsidiarity
- When there is No Path to Citizenship
