Catholic Social Teaching
This year's Social Justice Sunday statement Everybody's Business challenges the neo-liberal principles which we take for granted run our economy and businesses. Five long established tenets of Catholic Social Teaching were used to critique the way business and the economy are run:
The dignity of the human person means that people are not just units of production
The universal destination of goods means that everybody deserves a share
Solidarity means that the powerful, wealthy and capable must stand for and with the weak and poor
The preferential option for the poor means that the more must be included in decision making
The common good means that all of society, not just shareholders must be taken into account
Why?
Pope Francis tweeted inequality is the root of social evil
Social researched Richard Wilkinson shows in his TED talk that the inequality caused by unchecked economic growth causes social inequality which is detrimental not just to the poor but to the whole of society.
The dignity of the human person means that people are not just units of production
The universal destination of goods means that everybody deserves a share
Solidarity means that the powerful, wealthy and capable must stand for and with the weak and poor
The preferential option for the poor means that the more must be included in decision making
The common good means that all of society, not just shareholders must be taken into account
Why?
Pope Francis tweeted inequality is the root of social evil
Social researched Richard Wilkinson shows in his TED talk that the inequality caused by unchecked economic growth causes social inequality which is detrimental not just to the poor but to the whole of society.
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