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Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) is a non-partisan, Catholic, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization in the United States, which according to its website aims to promote "the fullness of the Catholic social tradition in the public square". [1] The organization was founded in 2005 by Alexia Kelley and Tom Perriello.
Aquinas's conception of the common good became standard in Roman Catholic moral theology. Against that background, the common good became a central concept in the modern tradition of Catholic social teaching, beginning with the foundational document, Rerum novarum, a papal encyclical by Pope Leo XIII, issued in 1891.
Formerly an associate professor at The Catholic University of America (CUA), where he was also the Director of CUA's Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies, he retired from the university in 2018. A public speaker and lecturer, Schneck is a frequent source of media analysis on issues involving Catholicism and public policy.
The conservative reformers: German-American Catholics and the social order (Univ of Notre Dame Pr, 1968) Guthrie, Gregory and Larry, Union Communion: Labor Unions and the Catholic Church (ISBN 979-8985035827, 2023) Heineman, Kenneth J. Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh (Penn State Press, 2010) Thompson, J. Milburn.
These declarations laid the foundation of Catholic social teaching, which rejected both capitalism and communism. [4] In terms of political development, Catholic social teaching endorsed democracy on the condition that it constitutes a protection of human dignity and the moral law, and valued common good over individualism. [1]
Integralism could be said to merely be the modern continuation of the traditional Catholic conception of Church–State relations elucidated by Pope Gelasius I and expounded upon throughout the centuries up to the Syllabus of Errors, which condemned the idea that the separation of Church and State is a moral good. [19] For example, some ...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says: [1] 2403 The right to private property, acquired or received in a just way, does not do away with the original gift of the earth to the whole of mankind. The universal destination of goods remains primordial, even if the promotion of the common good requires respect for the right to private property ...
Catholic Church and politics in the United States; Catholic Church and race; Catholic Church and slavery; In plurimis; Catholic Church in the Nordic countries; Catholic League (U.S.) Catholic Persecution of 1801; Catholic resistance to Nazi Germany; Catholic–Protestant relations; Catholics for Choice; Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good ...