A Century of Catholic Social Teaching

Abstract

“Four areas of concern will need to be dealt with in the future approach of the hierarchical teaching office to the social teaching of the Church in the area of social-ethical methodologies: an explicitly Christian approach as contrasted with an inclusively human approach, an emphasis on an organic and ordered society as distinguished from a more conflictual model, a multiplicity of different methodological approaches, and the discrepancy between the ethical methodologies currently employed in Catholic social teachings and in teachings on sexual issues.”