It is reported that the Canadian percentage of «the world's output in Catholic
social teaching documents» has sharply declined in the last few years.
Although Catholic
social teaching demands that all can access healthcare in order that human dignity and the common good are served, it does not demand a state monopoly.
Jacob Rees - Mogg's respect for local democracy and resistance to the centralizing tendencies of the European Union are consistent with the Catholic
social teaching of subsidiarity.
Faith comes from the Labour Party's founding principles of Christian socialism, and although many supporters don't have faith themselves we recognise the import influence of Christian
social teaching on our politics.
«In the 2012 budget there are a number of items that just seem to be quite frankly at odds with Catholic
social teachings in this regard - the cuts that he makes to WIC [women, infants and children] programs, the 20 % cuts in food stamps, cuts to maternal and infant grants.
Baha'is believe that there is one God, and that when people corrupt the religion God has given them, or are in need of further guidance or new
social teachings as the time requires, a new prophet comes to renew their commitment to Him.
Cardinal Cordes at the Press Conference presenting the encyclical distinguished the tradition of
Church social teaching into three stages:
Catholic
social teaching does not advocate the identification of Church and state, but neither can the sacred and secular be absolutely separated.
It is difficult to find a clearly articulated case in Catholic
social teaching for modern - style welfare states involving huge government intervention in the lives of families combined with enormous transfers totalling around a quarter of national income.
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In the final analysis, however, we are left with the question, of the role of these New
Testament social teachings in the life of the church.
Through encyclicals and the statements of recent synods, human rights have become the centerpiece of Roman Catholic
social teachings all over the world.
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social teaching remains a mystery to many Catholics (and an ideological plaything for others).
Catholic
social teaching says that fetuses are people - the argument is part of the church's strong pro-life and anti-abortion positions.
If Küng is looking for a middle ground and wants to demonstrate the viability of a religiously grounded vision, then surely Catholic
social teaching deserves more weight.
Although historically it has not always resisted associating itself with Polish national interests, the Ukrainian Catholic Church today has vigorously embraced the Catholic
social teaching begun under Leo XIII and developed over the last two centuries.
Nor has European Catholic
social teaching shown much awareness of great social writings in Latin America, such as that of Bartolomé de Las Casas, the progenitor of human rights thinking in the Americas, predating Locke and the North Americans.
At the heart of the recent encyclical Caritas in Veritate was the Pope's attempt to develop this understanding of «natural law» and
associated social teaching to emphasise more strongly that Man himself is «gift» made for «relationship».
Catholic
social teaching emphasizes both the natural rights of children to their parents, and the supernatural privilege of parents to share in the procreative love of God the Father.
I have taught a course on Catholic
Social Teaching twice now, but the ideas my students and I discussed have taken on new life in the midst of a community that is embodying these ideas in its very practice.
Like the pastoral letters on economics produced by America's Roman Catholic bishops nearly two decades ago, such
ecumenical social teaching would not prescribe specific policy choices, but it would insist that concern for the common good and the building up of community are requirements for any economic system.
Bunson provides enough information for the reader to justify Greg Erlandson's comment in his forward that this is a man «both forceful and humble» who «will not tolerate the false divisions that pit the Church's
social teaching against the Church's doctrine».
The Catholic intellectual tradition and, more specifically, Catholic
social teaching long predate our historical moment, as, for that matter, does reflection on «the moral foundations of democracy.»
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The Council is appointed by the pope, and its primary charge is «to engage in action - oriented studies based on both the papal and
episcopal social teaching of the Church.»
The chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences has heaped high and unexpected praise on China, insisting that the atheistic communist regime has created the best model for living out Catholic
social teaching today.
Zmirak may be trying to show how absurd it is to treat Catholic
social teaching as absolutely binding, but he makes the teaching look ridiculous in the process.
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Although this understanding of the most basic purposes of law and government has been constantly affirmed in the tradition of
papal social teaching, it is by no means peculiar to Catholicism.
He writes, «By the end of the [1980s], the Canadian bishops were producing between 8 and 10 percent of the world's output in Catholic
social teaching documents, far beyond our proportional representation in the global church....
This is especially so given that the answer to the problem lies in re-examining and applying Catholic
social teaching on the welfare state and Catholic teaching on marriage and family life.