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SUGGESTIONS ON REBUILDING CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING ON ECONOMICS
Author(s) -
Luckey William R.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2009.01969.x
Subject(s) - encyclical , compendium , catholic social teaching , doctrine , subject (documents) , sociology , catholic theology , point (geometry) , philosophy , theology , environmental ethics , law , political science , library science , linguistics , geometry , mathematics , computer science
A question hangs over the authoritative status of what has come to be called Catholic Social Teaching. The recent publication of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church gives added point to this question. This paper sketches the elements that should inform a genuinely authoritative Catholic teaching on this subject, based on the foundational principles of Catholic moral theology. The most recent encyclical in this area, Benedict XVI's Caritas in Veritate , is analysed.