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Immigration Reform and Catholic Social Teaching

Catholic Social Teaching insists on both compassion and responsibility, on both the dignity of immigrants and the legitimate concerns of the political community.

Immigrant Stories
Fleeing violence, seeking better employment, growing up as a dreamer — these are the stories of immigrants.…
Is Undocumented Immigration Sinful?
If someone entered or stayed in the United States undocumented, have they committed a serious sin?…
5 Surprising Ideas from Catholic Social Teaching
Rooted in the core principles of human dignity, CST offers a constructive vision for our own time of rapid transformation.…
School Choice and Catholic Social Teaching
Catholic Social Teaching (CST) offers a clear and principled framework for understanding school choice, emphasizing three key points.…
Subsidiarity is important because it encourages individual initiative and freedom.
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…
Gun Control and Self-Defense
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…

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