Proverbs and the Poor
The seeds of Our Lord’s social teaching were given in God’s revelation to Israel, the Old Testament. Here is an example from the Book of Proverbs and St. Matthew's Gospel.
Category Catholic Social Teaching
The Daughters of Zelo’phehad
In this post we’ll see how certain provisions of the Mosaic law prefigure a key principle of the Church’s Social Teaching, the Universal Destination of Goods. Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Catholic Doctrine states this principle quite succinctly: “Each human…
The Common Good
During the pandemic we often heard talk of actions taken for “the common good.” In this post we’ll take a look at what the Church has taught about this key principle of its social teaching. The most well known…