Catholic Social Teaching

This course is aimed at enabling participants to acquire a good understanding of the social teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.  The objectives are: (1) to show the historical development of the social teaching; (2) to learn of the three necessary societies: the family, state and Church; (3) to define and distinguish the types of justice, commutative, distributive and common good, and their applications; (4) to understand the principles of solidarity, subsidiarity, and the universal distribution of goods; (5) to consider some of the principal challenges facing society since Vatican Council II.  These themes are taken up in the third year courses.

Instructor: Francis Russell Hittinger, Ordinarius: Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Ordinarius: Pontifical Academy of the Social Sciences; EmeritusWarren Chair of Catholic Studies and Research Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa; Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of America and the University of Chicago, Fellow at the Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology.