COMING TO GRIPS WITH SUBSIDIARITY: STAGES OF GROWTH IN ROMAN CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHINGS

Clerical workers are an important segment of the work force. Catholic social teachings and eucharistic practice shed useful moral light on the increase in contingent work arrangements among clerical workers. The venerable concept of "the universal destination of the goods of creation" and a newer understanding of technology as "a shared workbench" illuminate the importance of good jobs for clerical workers. However, in order to apply Catholic social teachings to issues concerning clerical work as women's work, sexist elements in traditional Catholic social teachings must be critically assessed. Participation in the Eucharist helps shape a moral stance of inclusivity and sensitivity to forms of social marginalization. While actual practice fails fully to embody gender or racial inclusivity, participation in the inclusive table fellowship of the Eucharist should make business leaders question treating contingent workers as a peripheral work force.

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Flourishing in Crisis

10.1093/oso/9780190456023.003.0012 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer Phillips

Keyword(s):

Roman Catholic ◽

Ecological Crisis ◽

Economic Crises ◽

Environmental Care ◽

The Social ◽

Catholic Social Teachings ◽

And Gender ◽

Social Teachings

This chapter examines the tradition of Roman Catholic social teachings. Of particular interest and power is Pope Francis’s environmental encyclical, Laudato Si’, which connects and condemns both ecological and economic crises, exposes the weakness of technocratic thought, and offers a theological paradigm to replace it. The chapter also examines the social teachings on flourishing, those doctrines’ pertinence to environmental care, and the Church’s response to the contemporary ecological crisis. Finally, this chapter underscores the Catholic social teachings’ profound connections between poverty and ecological crises, and it pushes that tradition provocatively, in dialogue with non-Catholic environmentalists, to more fully consider animals and gender.

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Introduction

Catholic Social Activism ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479885480.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Sharon Erickson Nepstad

Keyword(s):

Catholic Church ◽

Common Good ◽

Roman Catholic ◽

Roman Catholic Church ◽

Catholic Social Teachings ◽

History Of ◽

The Common ◽

Social Teachings ◽

Peace And Reconciliation ◽

Social Catholicism

The introduction provides an overview and history of Catholic Social Teachings and the shift toward Social Catholicism. It explains how nineteenth-century labor struggles prompted the Roman Catholic Church to address the most pressing problem of that era. It also explores key themes in these social teachings, including the dignity of workers, the common good, solidarity, the option for the poor and vulnerable, the rights of workers, peace and reconciliation, and preservation of the environment. The introduction explains the sources and methods for developing the church’s doctrines. It concludes with an explanation of “lived religion” as the framework for examining how US Catholic laypeople put these teachings into action in their everyday lives, in their communities, and in their political contexts.

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Roman Catholic Tradition and Ritual and Business Ethics: A Feminist Perspective

Business Ethics Quarterly ◽

10.2307/3857299 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 71-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Barbara Hilkert Andolsen

Keyword(s):

Work Force ◽

Roman Catholic ◽

Business Leaders ◽

Contingent Work ◽

Clerical Workers ◽

Work Arrangements ◽

Catholic Social Teachings ◽

Table Fellowship ◽

Catholic Tradition ◽

Social Teachings

Abstract:Clerical workers are an important segment of the work force. Catholic social teachings and eucharistic practice shed useful moral light on the increase in contingent work arrangements among clerical workers. The venerable concept of “the universal destination of the goods of creation” and a newer understanding of technology as “a shared workbench” illuminate the importance of good jobs for clerical workers. However, in order to apply Catholic social teachings to issues concerning clerical work as women’s work, sexist elements in traditional Catholic social teachings must be critically assessed. Participation in the Eucharist helps share a moral stance of inclusivity and sensitivity to forms of social marginalization. While actual practice fails fully to embody gender or racial inclusivity, participation in the inclusive table fellowship of the Eucharist should make business leaders question treating contingent workers as a peripheral work force.

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Philosophical Expositions of Leadership and Human Values in Catholic Social Teachings: Resolving Nigeria’s Leadership Deficit and Underdevelopment

Open Journal of Philosophy ◽

10.4236/ojpp.2013.33059 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 03 (03) ◽

pp. 391-400

Author(s):

Ani Casimir ◽

Onah Nkechinyere ◽

Rev.Canon Collins Ugwu ◽

Maudline Okpara

Keyword(s):

Human Values ◽

Catholic Social Teachings ◽

Social Teachings

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Economic theory of distributism

Zbornik Matice srpske za drustvene nauke ◽

10.2298/zmsdn1553653d ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 653-676

Author(s):

Misa Djurkovic

Keyword(s):

Economic Theory ◽

Catholic Church ◽

Roman Catholic ◽

Economic Thought ◽

Roman Catholic Church ◽

Specific Direction ◽

The Status ◽

Anglo American ◽

Social Teachings ◽

Economic Thinking

this paper, the economic theory of distributism has been analyzed. In the first place, the author explains that the distributism is a social thought which emerged in the Anglo-American world as the development of social teachings in the Roman Catholic Church. Although it has not received the status the main schools in modern economic thought have, distrubutism persists as a specific direction of socio-economic thinking. The paper particularly investigates the ideas of classical distibutism. The author focuses on two basic books by Gilbert Chesterton and two most important economic books by Hilaire Belloc. These authors have insisted on the problem of society moving towards the so-called servile state in which a small number of capitalists rule over mass of proletarians who are gradually coming under slavery status, which is sanctioned by the law. For the purpose of remedying this tendency and collectivism, they proposed a series of measures for a repeated broad distribution of ownership over the means of production. Finally, there is an overview of this idea and its development throughout the twentieth century, finishing with contemporary distributists like John Medaille and Alan Carlson.

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