Catholic Social Teaching

Few treatments of Catholic Social Teaching are as comprehensive as this, and none is nearly so devoted to a critical scholarly presentation and analysis of the whole corpus.

Introduction: continuity, change, and contingency in modern Catholic social teaching Gerard Bradley and E. Christian Brugger; Part I. Historical Background: 1. Aquinas as a primary source of Catholic social teaching John Finnis; 2. The nineteenth century historical and intellectual context of Catholic social teaching Thomas Behr; Part II. Leo XIII to Francis: The Modern Documentary Tradition: 3. Rerum Novarum (1891) Joseph Boyle; 4. Quadragesimo Anno (1931) Samuel Gregg; 5. Pope Pius XII on social issues Ronald J. Rychlak; 6. Development in Catholic social teaching: John XXIII to Paul VI V. Bradley Lewis; 7. Social teaching in Pope John Paul II Patrick Lee; 8. Pope Benedict XVI on the political and social order Brian Benestad; 9. The social teaching of Pope Francis Daniel Mahoney; Part III. Themes in Catholic Social Teaching: 10. Catholic social teaching on the common good V. Bradley Lewis; 11. The universal destination of the world's resources Cristóbal Orrego; 12. The Apostolate of the Laity Christopher Tollefsen; 13. Globalization John Finnis; 14. Are some men angels? Modern Catholic social thought and Trust in government Christopher Wolfe; 15. The moral principles governing the immigration policies of polities Kevin Flannery SJ; 16. International finance and Catholic social teaching Robert Kennedy; 17. Subsidiarity Maria Cahill; 18. Socialism and capitalism in Catholic social thought Catherine Ruth Pakaluk; 19. Preferential option for the poor and Catholic Social teaching Martin Schlag; 20. Catholic social teaching and living the Christian life Russell Shaw; Part IV. Evaluative and Critical Reflections: 21. Catholic social teaching is Catholic moral teaching E. Christian Brugger; 22. How should Bishops teach Catholic social teaching? Gerard V. Bradley; 23. A radical critique of Catholic social teaching John M. Finnis.