Tag: subsidiarity
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Subsidiarity: Turning solidarity into social justice
Crux Now: Subsidiarity: Turning solidarity into social justice … Yet despite these unfortunate attempts at redefinition, progressive Catholics who value Catholic social teaching should reexamine subsidiarity, as it is a principle that they can and should embrace. Subsidiarity is an essential component of Church teaching. The catechism states that under subsidiarity, "a community of a…
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Subsidiarity in Five Minutes
Here is a good video on subsidiarity with interesting commentary on why our present political difficulties may be connected to a failure to appreciate it.
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Is the Default Position Shifting to Subsidiarity?
Catholic Culture: Is the Default Position Shifting to Subsidiarity? Not so long ago, most ecclesiastical officials and Catholic academicians emphasized solidarity as a political ideal. Owing to a common misunderstanding of both government and solidarity, that emphasis was almost always at the expense of subsidiarity. In recent years, however, the tide in favor of subsidiarity…
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Subsidiarity Defined: Downsizing Social Programs
National Catholic Register: Subsidiarity Defined: Downsizing Social Programs There seems to be a lot of confusion in regard to exactly what the Church teaches about economics. On one side, there are those whose reasoning goes something like this: “The Catholic Church is for poor people, so it is for large governmental social welfare programs and…
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Ryan says faith helped shape his budget
The Hill: Ryan says faith helped shape his budget … The White House has attacked the plan, saying in a statement that Republicans "banded together to shower millionaires and billionaires with a massive tax cut paid for by ending Medicare as we know it," and President Obama has called it "thinly veiled Social Darwinism" that…
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Budget Cuts of Biblical Proportions
First Things: Budget Cuts of Biblical Proportions Jordan Ballor … But in the final analysis the Call must be judged to suffer from the same fatal flaw that mars its less sophisticated and more strident cousins. Christian campaigns to make particular federal programs immune from funding reductions sends the wrong basic message both to politicians…
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What’s a church’s economic worth?
Philly.com: A study asks: What's a church's economic worth? What is the dollar value of a marriage saved? A suicide averted? An addiction conquered? A teenager taught right from wrong? In short: What is a church's economic worth to the community it serves? Last summer, a University of Pennsylvania professor and a national secular research…
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Empire Versus Subsidiarity
Regarding complex human organizations, subsidiarity is one of the most important yet frequently violated governance principles. Wikipedia writes: Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as the idea that a central authority should have a subsidiary…