10 Principles of Catholic Social Thought: Church, State, Society & Right Living in Catholic Teaching

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Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
University Professor, Saint Joseph’s University
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How would you like to learn from one of America’s most celebrated Catholic educators, exploring the meaning and application of some of our Church’s most vital teaching? Join Fr. William J. Byron, S.J., former President of the Catholic University of America, in this exciting new 12-talk series.

This course will challenge and energize you about your Catholic faith as a powerful force for good in the world.

You’ll discover insightful contributions from a broad range of Catholic thinkers—lay, religious, and clergy—who are not official teachers, but whose ideas help to explain and supplement the papal encyclicals, conciliar declarations, and statements from national bishops’ conferences that make up the documentary body of Catholic Social Teaching.

As you listen to this series, Catholic Social Teaching will come alive in your heart and mind. You’ll gain special access to this body of doctrine in the form of “credenda” (principles to be believed) that can become the basis of an “agenda” (actions to be taken) in order to build a better world.

You will cover topics such as the Principle of Human Dignity and gr

How would you like to learn from one of America’s most celebrated Catholic educators, exploring the meaning and application of some of our Church’s most vital teaching? Join Fr. William J. Byron, S.J., former President of the Catholic University of America, in this exciting new 12-talk series.

This course will challenge and energize you about your Catholic faith as a powerful force for good in the world.

You’ll discover insightful contributions from a broad range of Catholic thinkers—lay, religious, and clergy—who are not official teachers, but whose ideas help to explain and supplement the papal encyclicals, conciliar declarations, and statements from national bishops’ conferences that make up the documentary body of Catholic Social Teaching.

As you listen to this series, Catholic Social Teaching will come alive in your heart and mind. You’ll gain special access to this body of doctrine in the form of “credenda” (principles to be believed) that can become the basis of an “agenda” (actions to be taken) in order to build a better world.

You will cover topics such as the Principle of Human Dignity and grapple with the question of how we can ensure that people and nations live together in peace secured by justice. As Fr. Byron reveals, the protection of fundamental human dignity requires that the question be asked at all times, and the organization of human life requires that it be asked in all areas of human activity.

Connect with the ten principles of Catholic Social Teaching today.

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Rev. William J. Byron, S.J., Ph.D., is University Professor at Saint Joseph’s University and a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He is past president of The Catholic University of America and the University of Scranton, and he served as interim president of Loyola University in New Orleans. He previously served as pastor of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Ethics at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, and rector of the Georgetown Jesuit Community.
After service in the army’s 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment from 1945-46, he attended Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia for three years before entering the Jesuit order in 1950. Rev. Byron also holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland, two theology degrees from Woodstock College, and a bachelor’s degree, licentiate in philosophy, and a master’s degree in economics from Saint Louis University. 
He was the 1999 recipient of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities’ Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for his contributions over the years to the advancement of Catholic higher education. In that same year, he received the Council of Independent Colleges’ Academic Leadership Award. Rev. Byron holds 30 honorary degrees and is the author of 10 books, including Quadrangle Considerations (1989), which won the Catholic Press Association’s best book award in the education category. That same association gave its first place award in the Best Essay category to his “Structural Adjustments for a Church Working Its Way through Crisis,” in the Winter 2004 issue of Church magazine.

  • Introduction
  • The Principle of Human Dignity
  • The Principle of Respect for Human Life
  • The Principle of Participation
  • The Principle of Preferential Protection for the Poor and Vulnerable
  • The Principle of Solidarity
  • The Principle of Stewardship
  • The Principle of Subsidiarity
  • The Principle of Human Equality
  • The Principle of the Common Good
  • The Principle of Association
  • Forward in a Great Tradition

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