A Reader in Catholic Social Teaching Art and Poetry and the Political Order: Essays

and the Political Order: Essays Inspired by Jacque Maritain’s Scholasticism and Politics

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and their three children: César

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the son of a miner

A Reader in Catholic Social Teaching Art and Poetry and the Political Order: EssaysEdited by Peter A. Kwasniewski, Ph. D. Catholic Social Teaching (CST), the Social Doctrine of the Church, is frequently mentioned but seldom understood and applied aright. The writings of the popes, from Leo XIII onwards, are the authentic sources for the subject; their ideas have left a permanent mark on Catholic and secular thought alike. Neither platitudinous social commentary nor assertions of economic utopianism, CST takes seriously mans identity