Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: contingency, continuity, development, and change in modern Catholic social teaching / Gerard V. Bradley and E. Christian Brugger
  • Part I. Historical Background
  • Aquinas as a primary source of Catholic social teaching / John Finnis
  • The nineteenth-century historical and intellectual context of Catholic social teaching / Thomas C. Behr
  • Part II. Leo XIII to Francis: the documentary tradition
  • Rerum novarum (1891) / Joseph Boyle
  • Quadragesimo anno (1931) / Samuel Gregg
  • Pope Pius XII on social issues / Ronald J. Rychlak
  • Development in Catholic social teaching: John XXIII to Paul VI / V. Bradley Lewis
  • Social teaching in Pope John Paul II / Patrick Lee
  • Pope Benedict XVI on the political and social order / J. Brian Benestad
  • The social teaching of Pope Francis / Daniel J. Mahoney
  • Part III
  • Themes in Catholic social teaching
  • Catholic social teaching on the common good / V. Bradley Lewis
  • The universal destination of the world's resources / Cristóbal Orrego
  • The apostolate of the laity / Christopher Tollefsen
  • Globalization / John Finnis
  • Are some men angels? Modern Catholic social thought and trust in government / Christopher Wolfe
  • The moral principles governing the immigration policies of polities / Kevin L. Flannery, SJ
  • International finance and Catholic social teaching / Robert G. Kennedy
  • Subsidiarity / Maria Catherine Cahill
  • Socialism and capitalism in Catholic social thought / Catherine Ruth Pakaluk
  • The preferential option for the poor and Catholic social teaching / Martin Schlag
  • Catholic social teaching and living the Christian life / Russell Shaw
  • Part IV
  • Evaluative and critical reflections
  • Catholic social teaching is Catholic moral teaching / E. Christian Brugger
  • How Bishops should teach Catholic social doctrine / Gerard V. Bradley
  • A radical critique of Catholic social teaching / John Finnis.