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Catholic social doctrine is rooted in the social teachings of the New Testament, [11] the Church Fathers, [12] the Old Testament, and Hebrew scriptures. [13] [14] The church responded to historical conditions in medieval and early modern Europe with philosophical and theological teachings on social justice which considered the nature of humanity, society, economy, and politics. [15]
Pope John XXIII in 1961, after calling the Second Vatican Council and on the 70th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, published the encyclical Mater et Magistra ("Mother and teacher") to encourage Christians to respect human dignity and the community of all peoples, with an emphasis on the fact that economic conditions that place profit over human welfare fail to respect human dignity.
Specifically, it deals with questions on divine providence, the church as the mission of Jesus Christ and its social doctrine, the human person and human rights, the family in society, human work and the economy, the political and international communities, the environment, promoting peace, pastoral actions and the activities of the laity.
Documents of the Catholic Social Teaching tradition (25 P) Pages in category "Catholic social teaching" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total.
The Foundation is a lay-led non-profit organisation. Its purpose is to promote the Catholic social doctrine, especially as expressed in the encyclical Centesimus Annus (1991) and the aims of the Apostolic See. It is headquartered in Vatican City. [1]
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As Christian Democratic political parties were formed, they adopted the Catholic social teaching of subsidiarity, as well as the neo-Calvinist theological teaching of sphere sovereignty, with both Protestants and Roman Catholics sometimes agreeing "that the principles of sphere sovereignty and subsidiarity boiled down to the same thing.", [14 ...
To teach and spread her social doctrine is an essential part of the Church's evangelizing mission (#5). There can be no genuine solution to the "social question" apart from the Gospel (#5). Rerum novarum strongly affirms the dignity of work and the rights to private property, private associations, a just wage, and to discharge freely religious ...