Category: Catholic Social Teaching
Formation in Catholic Social Doctrine
As we saw previously, Cardijn always wanted Catholic Social Teaching or Doctrine to be taught in the context of life and social reality. Moreover, he often regretted the fact that it was not taught more and better.
Cardijn and Catholic Social Doctrine
Someone recently asked me about the relationship between the Cardijn or jocist method and Catholic Social Teaching, or as Cardijn preferred to call it, Catholic Social Doctrine. Let’s explore how that relationship developed over the years.
Cardinal Pierre: Pope Francis and the See Judge Act
Delivering the 2024 Cardinal Bernardin Lecture Holy See Nuncio to the USA, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, spoke of the importance of the see-judge-method as a tool of ecclesial discernment, particularly in showing mercy.
The dignity, rights and priority of labour
Evaluating the influence of an important 1874 speech by Manning, The dignity and rights of labour, on Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical, Rerum Novarum.
Cardinal Manning and the origins of Rerum Novarum
English Cardinal Henry Manning (1808-1892) was probably a major inspiration for Pope Leo XIII’s groundbreaking Catholic Social Teaching encyclical, Rerum Novarum, argues writer Russell Sparkes in the Tablet.
Mater et Magistra endorses the See Judge Act
On 15 May 1961 – 60 years ago this week – Pope John XXIII published his new encyclical, Mater et Magistra, Mother and Teacher, commemorating the 70th anniversary of Rerum Novarum.
