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
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 […]