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Catholic Social Teaching

Independence Day: True Freedom & The Beautiful Life

Posted on June 27, 2025June 27, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/sOGHRl-POAI As we celebrate Independence Day, Tony invites us to reflect upon how we understand the gift of freedom that has been won and defended for us by so many from a Christian perspective, and how the Gospel calls us ...
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7 Principles of Catholic Social Teaching: 5-The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers

Posted on May 27, 2024May 27, 2024 by Vanessa Crescio

“Human labor must be honored not because it is labor, but because it is human” Anthony Elson (Reclaiming Catholic Social Teaching, 141). Thus far we have examined four of the seven themes of Catholic Social Teaching and discovered that each t...
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7 Principle of Catholic Social Teaching: 4-Preferential Option for the Poor & Vulnerable

Posted on September 16, 2023November 3, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me…” (Matthew 25:35-36) In the previous reflection on the third theme of Catholic Social Teaching, we delved in...
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7 Principles of Catholic Social Teaching: 2-Call to Family, Community, & Participation

Posted on July 12, 2023August 2, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

“The family is the basic cell of society. It is the cradle of life and love, the place in which the individual ‘is born’ and ‘grows’” (Pope St. John Paul II, “Christifideles Laici”). In our first installment of this seven-part series on Catho...
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7 Principles of Catholic Social Teaching: 1-Life & Dignity of the Human Person

Posted on June 20, 2023July 19, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

“The glory of God is the human person fully alive; and the glory of the human person consists in beholding God” (St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies, 4.20) In his October 16, 2021 address to The World Meeting of Popular Movements, Pope Fr...
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An Enterprise of Mercy: Business That Serves Humanity

Posted on January 24, 2022March 1, 2022 by Vanessa Crescio

“All human activity, including business, can be an exercise in mercy, which is partaking in God’s love for mankind … Enterprises exist to serve” (Pope Francis, Nov. 17, 2016, to the Participants in the International Conference of the Chris...
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