Posts Tagged ‘subsidiarity’

Engaging Economic Subsidiarity: embracing the struggle between Freedom and Equality

May 13, 2011

One’s perspective on issues determines what one sees. Broader perspectives engulf more than narrower ones. Retrieving the most fundamental perspective, at least for believers in God, entails acknowledgment that all is gift, all is grace. This is a creation perspective. Everything that we have and we possess is a gift from God. Taking gift/gratuity seriously ... Read more

In Passion for Justice | Tagged equality, Fr. Sebastian MacDonald, freedom, logic of gift, mondragon, subsidiarity

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Rerum Novarum and the Catholic legacy of Economic Justice

May 1, 2011

The current budget battle between the two dominant American political parties involves two familiar, age-old, disagreements on how to provide prosperity for as many people as possible. From the political forces on the right we have a firm belief that economic growth happens through a free and unregulated market system. This tradition comes to us ... Read more

In Passion for Justice | Tagged Caritas in Veritate, Economic Justice, Labor, labor rights, rerum novarum, solidarity, subsidiarity, worker rights

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Solidarity vs. Subsidiarity

Aug 17, 2010

There are two pertinent “principles” that the church has proposed within its social teachings which at first glance may appear contradictory: subsidiarity and solidarity. When the Catholic Church started promulgating its social teaching with Pope Leo XIII in 1891 priority for the social order was given to subsidiarity. However, in the recent development of social teachings ... Read more

In Passion for Justice | Tagged Catholic Social Teaching, families, Passionist, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Leo XII, solidarity, subsidiarity, Vatican II

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