# CAPP\-USA: Founded by St\. John Paul II \- Catholic Social Teaching in Action

> CAPP\-USA is a Vatican Foundation founded by Pope St\. John Paul II to promote the knowledge and practice of Catholic Social Teaching\.

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## Pages
- [The Family](https://capp-usa.org//the-family/)
- [Immigration](https://capp-usa.org//immigration-overview/): Immigration is one of the most polarizing issues in American public life, and much of the debate collapses complex legal, moral, and political questions into oversimplified narratives\.
- [Abortion](https://capp-usa.org//abortion/)
- [Consumerism](https://capp-usa.org//consumerism/)
- [Racism in the United States](https://capp-usa.org//racism-in-the-united-states/): Racism in the United States and around the world is a sin and always has been\. Catholic social teaching takes us back to human dignity\!
- [Dignity of Work](https://capp-usa.org//dignity-of-work/)
- [Male, Female, and Transgenderism](https://capp-usa.org//male-female-transgenderism/)
- [Overpopulation](https://capp-usa.org//overpopulation/): For more than half a century, the world has feared that human numbers would overwhelm the planet’s ability to sustain life\.
- [Homosexuality](https://capp-usa.org//homosexuality/)
- [The Death Penalty](https://capp-usa.org//the-death-penalty/): How do we reconcile traditional and modern teaching?
- [Contemporary Issues](https://capp-usa.org//contemporary-issues/)
- [What is Catholic Social Teaching](https://capp-usa.org//what-is-catholic-social-teaching/): What is Catholic social teaching? CAPP\-USA has the answer\. It offers definitions and related concepts\. Click here for more information\.
- [Alienation](https://capp-usa.org//alienation/)
- [Preferential Option for the Poor](https://capp-usa.org//preferential-option-for-the-poor/): The Preferential Option for the Poor is an important and consistent part of Catholic social teaching that must be made known\.
- [Physical Environment](https://capp-usa.org//physical-environment/): Our physical environment is a precious gift from God and deserves our best efforts, which Catholic social teaching properly orders\.
- [Subsidiarity](https://capp-usa.org//subsidiarity/): “Experience has shown that where personal initiative is lacking, political tyranny ensues\.”
- [Environmental Degradation](https://capp-usa.org//environmental-degradation/)
- [The Three Principles](https://capp-usa.org//catholic-social-teaching-principles/): There are 3 principles of Catholic Social Teaching\. Not four, or seven, or ten\. These key principles guide everything else\.
- [Democratic Socialism](https://capp-usa.org//socialism/): CAPP USA explains what the Catholic Church says about democratic socialism and how it differs from other forms of socialism\. Find out more here\.
- [Structures of Society](https://capp-usa.org//structures-of-society/): Catholic social teaching addresses the problems in our society structures; in politics, economics, and most importantly culture\.
- [The Family and the State](https://capp-usa.org//the-family-and-the-state/)
- [Integral Ecology](https://capp-usa.org//integral-ecology/): Integral ecology unites the human and physical environment, both respecting the human family and renewing the relationship with nature\.
- [Human Environment](https://capp-usa.org//human-environment/): What is our human environment? It involves the moral structure which we have been endowed\. Care for this environment is critical\.
- [Universal Destination of Goods](https://capp-usa.org//universal-destination-of-goods/): The goods of the Earth belong to all, but properly understanding the universal destination of goods is much more than that\.
- [Right to Private Property](https://capp-usa.org//right-to-private-property/): Pope Leo XIII’s articulation of the right to private property in 1891 caused quite a stir, provoking much dialogue and argument\.
- [The Common Good](https://capp-usa.org//the-common-good/): The common good in Catholic social teaching is not a principle, but the result of implementing human dignity, solidarity, and subsidiarity\.
- [Solidarity](https://capp-usa.org//solidarity/): The key Catholic social teaching principle of solidarity demands that our love for others must be as radical as Christ's\.
- [Human Dignity](https://capp-usa.org//human-dignity/)

## Posts
- [Antisemitism and the Catholic Church](https://capp-usa.org//2025/04/antisemitism-and-catholic-social-teaching/): Antisemitism is one such grave injustice, striking at the heart of our faith’s call to love and solidarity\.
- [A Rerum Novarum Summary](https://capp-usa.org//2025/03/rerum-novarum-summary/): Rerum Novarum was groundbreaking in addressing the struggles of the working class and societal challenges during the Industrial Revolution\.
- [A Laudato Si Summary](https://capp-usa.org//2025/03/laudato-si-summary/): Laudato Si’ is an appeal for humanity to recognize and embrace God’s vision for the earth and recognize our interconnectedness\.
- [Immigration and Mass Deportations](https://capp-usa.org//2025/01/immigration-and-mass-deportations/): “Justice is the primary way of charity”\. \(Pope Benedict XVI, 60\)
- [Euthanasia](https://capp-usa.org//2024/12/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”\. \(Pope Benedict XVI\)

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- [What is CST?](https://capp-usa.org/category/all-articles/what-is-cst/)
- [Culture](https://capp-usa.org/category/all-articles/culture/)

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