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Join our Newsletter Is Your Company Paying A “Just” Wage? by Dr. Brian Engelland, DBA Over 120 years ago, Pope Leo XIII introduced the idea of a “just” wage in his encyclical, Rerum Novarum. He defined the just wage as an amount needed...
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Join our Newsletter Consumption and Family Life by Andrew V. Abela, PhD Consumerism arises from a misunderstanding about the meaning of life and the real source of human happiness: Consumerism is the mistaken idea that the consumption of things...
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Join our Newsletter Toward Achieving a “Just” Distribution of Wealth by Dr. Brian Engelland, DBA Human labor tends to be undervalued for what it can produce, and negotiations between employer and employee tend to be uneven. Accordingly, the Church expects...
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Join our Newsletter Free Markets, Catholic Social Teaching, and Democracy by CAPP-USA What does the Church teach about free markets? Catholic social teaching places economic freedom parallel to political freedom. It recognizes that free enterprise, rightly...
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Join our Newsletter What Does Catholic Social Teaching Say About the “Welfare State” by CAPP-USA What is the “Welfare State”? “The State which would provide everything (a welfare state), absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere...
