Key Theological Positions Underlying the Bishops' Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the US Economy

1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles D. Skok
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Pastoral Letter ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us

I. The Nonviolence–Just War Nexus

Horizons ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-114
Author(s):  
Drew Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Just War ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Pastoral Letter ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Us ◽  
Just War Tradition ◽  
Peace And War

Gerald Schlabach wrote that a key test of progress for Catholicism in its dialogue with the historic peace churches on nonviolence and the use of force would be that the church's teaching on nonviolence would become “church wide and parish deep.” While modern Catholic social teaching has recognized nonviolence since the time of the Second Vatican Council, and Pope Saint John Paul II gave nonviolence strong, formal endorsement in his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, the church's teaching on nonviolence is hardly known in the pews. If they are familiar at all with Catholic teaching on peace and war, most Catholics would know the just-war tradition, especially through the US bishops’ 1983 pastoral letter, The Challenge of Peace. But the newer and still relatively slight teaching on nonviolence is hardly known at all. Only by rare exception do Catholic preachers address issues of peace and war.

Immigration, Reciprocity, and the Modern Economic Tradition

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-34
Author(s):  
Andrew Beauchamp ◽  
Jason A. Heron ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Us ◽  
Modern Economic

Contemporary economists are silent regarding economic rights because modern economic theory does not adequately account for reciprocity and risk in human relationships. The immigration question in the US serves as our test case for both the reality of reciprocity and risk in the realm of economic rights, and the need for economic analysis that more honestly contends with this reality. We examine reciprocity and risk in immigration through an economic lens and then complement that examination with resources from the Catholic social teaching tradition. We show how Catholic social teaching can enhance economic analysis of immigration and other social phenomena by helping economics make sense of reciprocity and risk in economic relations.

Which of These Was Neighbour?: Spiritual Dimensions of the US Immigration Question

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-202
Author(s):  
Gloria Schaab
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Present Climate ◽  
The Us ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
Jewish Scriptures ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
American Memory

AbstractIn the present climate of debate surrounding United States immigration, both legal and illegal, the call to be neighbour and to exercise hospitality that echoes throughout the biblical tradition provides valid and unequivocal dimensions of a Christian spirituality within the horizon of the immigration discussion. This article traces the development of such a spirituality beginning with the Jewish scriptures, the ministry of Jesus in the gospels and Catholic social teaching. It concludes with a spirituality rooted in the American memory that offers promise and hope and proclaims the best of the American spirit.

Catholic Social Teaching and American Politics: How Can a Church Contribute to Civic Dialogue in a Liberal Democracy?

The Forum ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Christopher Manuel
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Civic Dialogue

AbstractThis article examines how the Catholic Church has sought over the past 30 years to participate meaningfully in political life and civic dialogue in the US – a nation constitutionally predicated on a strict separation of church and state, but which accommodates compromises, and a society historically hostile to its minority Catholic population.

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