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.
Common Good Articles
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 self-defense.
Euthanasia
Advocates of euthanasia use terms like “freedom”, “compassion”, “choice”, “death with dignity”, and “the right to die” to mask the act with “a veil of human compassion”. (Pope Benedict XVI)
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?…
We are witnessing the breakdown caused by an "increasingly stark disagreement between Democrats and Republicans...about more than just politics and policies."…
List of Articles
- 5 Surprising Ideas About Poverty from Dilexi Te
- 5 Surprising Ideas from Catholic Social Teaching
- A Compass for Young Generations
- A Divided Government and the Political Divide
- A Laudato Si Summary
- A List of Human Rights According to the Church
- A Rerum Novarum Summary
- A Short Course on Subsidiarity
- Affordable Housing and Catholic Social Teaching
- Catholic Social Teaching and Sacrifice
- Consumerism: Rampant and Dangerous
- Death Penalty Pros and Cons
- Democracy Quotes that Will Make You Think
- Euthanasia
- Freedom Quotes from the Catholic Church
- Gender Equality and the Church
- God Quotes from Catholic Social Teaching
- Gratuitousness: Catholic Social Teaching’s Solution for Capitalism
- Gun Control and Self-Defense
- Helping the Poor
- Immigrant Rights and Duties
- Immigrant Stories
- Immigration and Mass Deportations
- Immigration Quotes from the Church
- Immigration Reform and Catholic Social Teaching
- Inflation and Catholic Social Teaching
- Is Family Life Today Under Attack?
- Is Feminism Good or Bad?
- Is Undocumented Immigration Sinful?
- Is Your Company Paying "Just" Wages?
- Justice Quotes from the Church
- Karl Marx and Catholic Social Teaching
- Learning from the Holy Family
- Our Human Environment is Endangered
- Pope Francis and Gender Ideology
- Pope Francis on Abortion
- Pope Francis on the Environment
- Pope Francis Quotes on War and Peace
- Pornography Assaults Human Dignity
- Pornography, Addiction, and the Common Good
- Poverty Quotes from the Church
- Quotes about Hard Work from the Church
- Quotes about Truth from the Church
- Racism Quotes from the Church
- Rediscovering the Power of Fatherhood
- School Choice and Catholic Social Teaching
- Should the Death Penalty be Allowed?
- Social Justice Quotes
- Social Media and Mental Health
- Tariffs and the Common Good
- The 2025 Government Shutdown
- The Common Good is a Result, not a Principle
- The Cycle of Violence
- The Problems of Globalization
- The Ukraine War and Pope Leo XIV
- The Ukraine War and the International Work for Peace
- The Work for Peace and Development
- Universal Healthcare pros and cons
- What is a Union and What does the Church Teach?
- What is Integral Development?
- When there is No Path to Citizenship
- Who is My Neighbor?
- Women Nurturing Sustainable Development
