Post Tagged with: "Leo XIII"
An Introduction to Distributism II
The widespread distribution of productive property is the primary goal of Distributism; however, other principles also inform Distributism’s pursuit of this goal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Toward Social Thinking
It is quite evident that this existing state of things is substantially what Socialism is condemned for proposing to bring in! Moreover, it is equally evident that the state of things condemned by the Pope is not due to Socialism; but if attributable to any party, then to Conservatives, Liberals, Republicans or Democrats.
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.
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.