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.
What is a Union and What does the Church Teach?
The right to form unions is firmly rooted in Catholic social teaching — with even their historical antecedents confirmed. However, there are conditions.
Rerum Novarum was groundbreaking in addressing the struggles of the working class and societal challenges during the Industrial Revolution.…
Our neighbors do not solely include our family, close friends, or those who live next door. ALL are our neighbors. …
The right to form unions is firmly rooted in Catholic social teaching — with even their historical antecedents confirmed. However, there are conditions.…
The Catholic Church does not address tariffs in detail. She recognizes both the benefits of free trade and the right of nations to regulate their…
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…
Democracy is “the most effective historical instrument for ensuring its own future in a way befitting to human beings.” (Pope Benedict XVI)…
Social justice “upholds the fundamental human right to a dignified life”. (Pope Francis)…
Legitimate state authority has the right and the duty to protect the common good. However...…
Genuine freedom is not simply the ability to do whatever you want; it is the ability to choose the good.…
“Peace is not a document which gets signed and then filed away. Peace is built day by day!”…
Health, is “a universal right which means that access to healthcare services cannot be a privilege.” - Pope Francis…
Perhaps the most potentially debilitating addiction is to pornography because it "represents a serious threat to society as a whole." (Pope St. John Paul II,…
“Catholic politicians and legislators...must...introduce and support laws inspired by values grounded in human nature.” (Pope Benedict XVI, 231)…
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…
I would like to thank the President of AIDDA, Laura Frati Gucci, for inviting me to the 58th FCEM World Congress in this conference entitled…
Following his predecessors, Pope Leo XIV says “It is the duty of all countries to support the cause of peace".…
The sole reason for the existence of governments is to promote the Common Good.…
“Authentic human development concerns the whole of the person in every single dimension”. (Pope Benedict XVI)…
Capitalism has proven to be the greatest poverty relief program the world has ever known, but Pope Francis echoes that there this is no reason…
The “common good” is a critical concept and – an aspirational result: “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or…
