See also:
Rerum Novarum
http://inquisitionnews.blogspot.com/p/rerum-novarum.html
Centesimus Annus
http://inquisitionnews.blogspot.com/p/centesimus-annus.html
Caritas In Veritate
http://inquisitionnews.blogspot.com/p/caritas-in-veritate_05.html
The Popes Plans On Organizing Political, Economic And Religious Activities Worldwide
http://www.scribd.com/doc/22319643/Pope-Plans
What Does Centesimus Annus Really Teach?
Does Centesimus Annus really endorse the ‘free’ market? Thomas Storck demonstrates how Pope John Paul II’s encyclical not only fails to endorse laissez-faire but how the document is fundamentally in accord with traditional social doctrine.
An Introduction to Distributism
The servile system has already begun. Indeed, it is already here. The differences between a “socialist” Europe and a “capitalist” America are merely differences of degree rather than of kind.
A Giant Among Catholic Economists
Heinrich Pesch, 1854-1926, a German Jesuit priest and economist, is largely unknown in the U.S., but arguably he is one of the most important and influential Catholic thinkers of the past few centuries.
Catholic Patriotism
What Pope Leo XIII taught us about genuine Catholic patriotism. Reflections on Diuturnum and Sapientiae Christianae.
A Time to Rebuild on Firmer Foundations III
St. Thomas explains that the purpose of exchange transactions is to mutually benefit both parties. They are exchanging things because each will benefit from the thing exchanged by the other. Since the intended purpose is mutual benefit, the burdens should be mutual and not disproportionate.
Being American and Catholic
The Catholic, as pointed out by Pope Leo XIII in Sapientiae Christianae, is to recognize the need, wisdom, and applicability of Christian teaching and faith to their own lives, to the lives of their neighbors, and to the institutions of their nations.
A Time to Rebuild on Firmer Foundations II
It is like saying: “Thank you very much for the private property God, but now go back to heaven and let us do with it as we please.” This is the classic enlightenment view of God as clock maker who winds up the world and then detaches from it. That is not the true God, the God that the Church proclaims.
A Time to Rebuild on Firmer Foundations
Faced with an unprecedented economic crisis, many may be willing to consider ideas and principles which under more prosperous times were ignored. The Catholic philosophical and intellectual tradition offers a comprehensive system of economic thought which provides much material for critiquing the reigning economic philosophy and identifying within it the causes of the current crisis. It also [...]
The National Vice and the Kingship of Christ
Our system is ill because it ignores the only principles which can give rise to a healthy one; that is, the principles of Catholic social teaching, as expounded in Catholic philosophy and the papal encyclicals on the subject. Catholics, even traditionalists, all too frequently ignore this teaching, as though it were merely opinion with no binding authority on Catholics.
The Dialogue Between Veritas and Caritate
Benedict insists on a dialogic relationship between truth and love. What is implied by this statement is that there is a dialogic relationship between theology, the Queen of the Sciences, and economics, or indeed every other humane science.
Will the Real Subsdiarity Please Stand Up?
One difficulty facing those who take a borderline libertarian view of subsidiarity is that doing so fails to take into into account what encyclicals have said concerning the state, its proper role and functions, and particularly its rightful involvement in the market. This, as I have contended elsewhere, results in allowing the distributist tail to wag the CST dog
From the Beginnings Through Leo XIII
Leo XIII restored the confidence of the Catholic world and began to reinvigorate the Church with an energy that lasted up into the 1960s. He did this chiefly by showing how the crisis of modem times could be met by drawing on Catholic faith and tradition.
An Introduction to the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church
Most people come to the Church’s teaching with previously formed and strongly held opinions on socio-economic matters. Most of us are raised and formed in a milieu in which we receive either what we call liberal or conservative ideas.
The Bottom Line: Exposing Catholic Austro-Libertarian Dissent
Jeremiah Bannister’s second half to “A Resolved Tension” in audio format.
Is Distributism Agrarianism?
The rise of major technologies came later, and the fact of their existence does not necessitate a Capitalist economy. They may very well have been used in a cooperative manner, and indeed they are today in certain places. Nevertheless what does Distributism have to say about the agrarianism in economy?
A Resolved Tension
The question, then, becomes whether the position held by Woods and those like him hold up in light of what the Church has said regarding her own competency in these matters. In brief, do Catholic libertarians of this kind speak of the Church as the Church speaks of herself?
On Pilgrimage: Giving the Addict His Due
If we say that any earthly good that has been entrusted to our stewardship may be held back from another because we believe that we deserve to keep it, we dishonour GOD. In fact, we make ourselves gods by denying another what we have in surplus, and we do so to our own detriment.
Individualism and the State, Part II
Leo XIII clearly argues that not only does man exist in society by nature, but that man exists in the state by nature; and further, that the state, “no less than society itself,” is a natural institution with God at its origin.
Individualism and the State: Part I
If Locke is representative of “soft-core” individualism, which holds merely that government is purely voluntary and is limited solely to protecting individuals’ property rights, Rothbard is representative of “hard-core” individualism, which holds that the state has no legitimate role whatsoever.
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis
The application of Catholic social teaching to the whole world and to relationships between nations, which Paul VI called for with such urgency, for the most part did not take place.
John Paul II, Laborem Exercens
Work is not just an economic action; it is primarily something about the human person. It has economic consequences to be sure, but it arises from and affects man and society at many and deeper levels than the economic.
Interview with Christopher A. Ferrara
Anyone who thinks that Wal-Mart—with its government-subsidized legions of wage slaves in communist China—represents “free enterprise” needs to acquaint himself with the Church’s social teaching immediately. – Christopher Ferrara
A Distributive Society is a Co-Creative Society…What’s That You Say?
As co-creators our work consists of loving, which is to say, of receiving that which was given by God, then giving it back in all its original goodness made even more precious by our seeing to it that through our dominion vigil it had not diminished in quality or condition.
From Pius XII Through Paul VI
All of the social encyclicals were occasioned by crises in the world. Leo XIII wrote in Rerum Novarum, for example, that “some remedy must be found, and quickly found, for the misery and wretchedness which press so heavily at this moment on the large majority of the very poor” (no. 2).
Catholic Social Teaching: Pius XI
This accumulation of power, a characteristic note of the modem economic order, is a natural result of unrestrained free competition which permits the survival of those only who are the strongest. This often means those who fight most relentlessly, who pay least heed to the dictates of conscience.
Catholic Social Teaching: St. Pius X Through Pius XI
Pius’s great achievement in the social field was Quadragesimo Anno, issued on the precise day, May 15, exactly forty years after Rerum Novarum.
The Chips Begin to Fall Where They May
As far as the good Pope is concerned, the teachings on the just price, just wage and government intervention to protect them are in fact part of universal ordinary magisterial teaching. This has been a constant teaching in the Catholic Church, at first in practice, but later in more explicit doctrine.
Economic Law and Catholic Social Doctrine Part II
The popes are realists in their social thinking. They cannot rely upon the idealized picture of economic behavior presented by mainstream economists, nor by the equally or more absurd portrayal by the so-called Austrian economists.
Economic Law and Catholic Social Doctrine Part I
Since the beginning of her existence on this earth the Church of Jesus Christ has taught about both faith and morals, that is, about what we are to believe and how we should behave.
Locke and InsideCatholic
For Leo, men don’t form the state because they want to protect their property; they form the state because his “natural instinct moves him to live in civil society, for he cannot, if dwelling apart, provide himself with the necessary requirements of life, nor procure the means of developing his mental and moral faculties.”
A Distributist Looks at Capitalism and Socialism
Anyone who looks at human life as more than a mad scramble for more and more things will naturally turn his attention to a system whose tendency is to place material goods at the true service of mankind.
Neither Statism Nor Individualism
If we are to subject all our being, our thinking, and our living to Christ and His Church, we cannot ignore the existence of Catholic social teaching. Whether we like it or not, it is part of our patrimony, and until we embrace it as unreservedly…we will never be free of the tug-of-war between statism and individualism.
Subsidiarity: Judging the Appropriate Level
Subsidiarity should be understood as saying not that the lowest possible level should be doing things, but that the right level should be doing them.
Centesimus Annus Part Two
Catholic moral teaching simply cannot accept the market according to its own logic, that is, according to a logic which sees the market and market solutions as able to take care of all or most human and social difficulties and needs.
Centesimus Annus Part One
To spread her social doctrine pertains to the Church’s evangelizing mission and is an essential part of the Christian message…
- Pope John Paul II
The Continuity of Centesimus Annus
Another thing Centesimus does not do, is discard those “third way fantasies” Mr. Weigel is so excited to dismiss. The implications are that we either have the concentration of property in the hands of the State or in the hands of the few. But the very document he adamantly defends as embracing the “free market” debunks this position.
Three Strategies for Evasion
While one is hardly surprised to find dissent from Catholic teaching among liberal Catholics, it is just as common to find it among conservative Catholics. These latter, however, since they see themselves as faithful adherents to Catholic doctrine, necessarily must create some strategy of disguising their dissent from Catholic teaching.
Labor Rights Reality
It is ironic that those who propose to remove government intervention in the economy are amongst the biggest proponents of using government to tear down unions that “get in the way” of the market. What these folks fail or refuse to recognize is that unions have as much of a right to be market participants as corporations.
Is the Acton Institute a Genuine Expression of Catholic Social Thought?
Liberty the highest political end of man? Not justice, not virtue, not the common good? All else flows from this fundamental error, the error, in fact, of Lucifer, who desired liberty above all else.
Is Distributism Catholic?
Acceptance of Distributism by non-Catholics is not based on the fact it is consistent with Catholicism; it is based on the fact that Distributism is a philosophically sound and practical economic and social view. Catholics who accept Distributism do so on both grounds.
The Trouble with Catholic Social Teaching
The term “Catholic Social Teaching” produces two opposite and unpleasant effects. It makes some people bare their teeth. And not surprisingly, it makes other people run and hide. However, the contrasting reactions are due to the problem that some folks do not understand what the term means, and some folks do.
Is A Free Market A Good Thing?
Free markets will not automatically produce justice. They have no means of guaranteeing the payment of a just wage or of just prices for consumers. But neither will they even necessarily produce economic prosperity.
The Social Kingship of Christ
The Church teaches as the viceroy of Christ the King what moral principles need to form economic laws and transactions. She is not unconcerned with economic prosperity and meeting the needs of and providing some earthly comfort to men, but these things must be sought after seeking the kingdom of God and His justice.
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