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Catholic social teaching (CST) is an area of Catholic doctrine which is concerned with human dignity and the common good in society. It addresses oppression , the role of the state , subsidiarity , social organization , social justice , and wealth distribution .
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.
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, official English translation; Ramdeen, L., Catholic Commission for Social Justice of the Diocese of Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago), Understanding the Church's Social Teaching, series of articles on each part of the Compendium, published in 2005-2009. Only the 2005 and 2006 series are ...
Catholic social teaching affirms a right to private property that is limited by the common purpose of goods (#30). Work, which is in our day work with and for others, is the human response to God's gifts (#31). The possession of know-how, technology, and skill is surpassing land as the decisive factor of production (#32).
The term subsidiarity as employed in Catholic social thought was inspired by the teaching of Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, who served as Bishop of Mainz in the mid- to late 19th century. [4] It is most well-known, however, from its subsequent incorporation into Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quadragesimo anno. This encyclical's formulation of ...
Laborem exercens begins with a scriptural argument that work is more than just an activity or a commodity, but an essential part of human nature.. The Church finds in the very first pages of the Book of Genesis the source of her conviction that work is a fundamental dimension of human existence on earth. ...
Mater et magistra begins by praising three earlier papal documents on social topics and summarizing their key points.. Rerum novarum is extolled: "Here for the first time was a complete synthesis of social principles, formulated with such historical insight as to be of permanent value to Christendom ... rightly regarded as a compendium of Catholic social and economic teaching", [4] "the Magna ...
This category includes the official statements by the magisterium of the Catholic Church which constitute a part of the tradition of Catholic social teaching. It thereby includes official statements of popes, councils, synods, bishops' conferences, and individual bishops.