With the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) having been called to task by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), it may not be long before organizations sponsoring the nation’s Catholic hospitals will be called to task by the Pontifical Council for Health Care (PCHC). Why? According to one member […]
Posts Tagged ‘subsidiarity’
Catholic hospitals (and politicians?) being put “on notice”…
Posted by The Motley Monk on November 26th, 2012
Posted in Politics 
Tags: Catholic, Catholic hospitals, Charter, PCHC, solidarity, subsidiarity, task 
No Comments »The Role Of The Government According To Catholic Doctrine
Posted by Marcel on October 25th, 2012
Subsidiarity is the Catholic social justice principle which may be the least understood and taught and is one of the most important. Subsidiarity means that every issue should be handled by the lowest-level or least centrally-organized group whenever p…
AWESOME Subsidiarity Video
Posted by Father John Hollowell on October 15th, 2012
I’ve blogged before (here and here) about subsidiarity and how it is the best kept secret Catholic Social Teaching and about how if we applied it in our country, we’d be a heck of a lot better off. Here’s a great video from Catholic Vote on “subs…
Posted in Fatherly Advice Tags: blogged, Catholic, Catholic social teaching, heck, subsidiarity, teaching, vote No Comments »Wikatechesis™ – Catholic Teaching on Subsidiarity
Posted by Chad Simpson on October 2nd, 2012
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority. Political decisions should be taken at a local level if possible, rather than by a central authority. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as the idea that a central authority […]
Do Social Programs Intrude on ‘Moral Space’?
Posted by NCRegister on September 19th, 2012
By BENJAMIN WIKER |
As I noted in a previous post, the Catholic principle of subsidiarity asserts that “a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its…
Posted in News Tags: Benjamin Wiker, Catholic, Do Social Programs Intrude, Intrude, Moral Space, post, Programs, subsidiarity No Comments »Solidarity and the Welfare State
Posted by Donald R. McClarey on August 23rd, 2012
An interesting look at Paul Ryan by Father Barron based upon the twin poles of Catholic social teaching: subsidiarity and solidarity. It is easy to see how the welfare state, consolidating ever more power in the central government, is destructive of subsidiarity. What is often overlooked however, is how destructive the welfare state tends to be also of […]
Posted in Politics Tags: GOOD, Paul Ryan, scope, Society, solidarity, subsidiarity, welfare state, Welfare states No Comments »
