Topics in Catholic Social Thought

This sampling of resources published after 2000 highlight some of the ways Catholic social thought has been applied to specific social issues.

Economy

Allman, Mark J., ed. 2012. The Almighty and the Dollar: Reflections on Economic Justice for All. Winona, MN: Anselm Academic.
Bailey, James. 2010. Rethinking Poverty: Income, Assets, and the Catholic Social Justice Tradition. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
Massaro, Thomas, S.J. 2007. United States Welfare Policy: A Catholic Response. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Twomey, Gerald. 2005.The Preferential Option for the Poor in Catholic Social Thought From John XXIII to Paul III. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.

Coleman, John, S.J. 2015. “The Church, Climate Change, and Creation Care.” In Erin Brigham, ed. The Church in the Modern World: Fifty Years after Gaudium et Spes, 127-140. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
Winright, Tobias. 2011. Green Discipleship: Catholic Theological Ethics and the Environment. Winona, MN: Anselm Academic.

Coleman, John and W.F. Ryan, eds. 2005. Globalization and Catholic Social Thought: Present Crisis, Future Hope. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
Clark, Meghan J. 2014. The Vision of Catholic Social Thought: The Virtue of Solidarity and the Praxis of Human Rights. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.
Hollenbach, David, S.J., ed. 2010. Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Hollenbach, David and Thomas A. Shannon. “A Balancing Act: Catholic Teaching on the Church’s Rights—and the Rights of All.” America, 206, no. 7 (March 5, 2012): 23-26.
Pilaro, Franklin, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Maria Clara Bingemer and Sarojini Nadar, eds. 2015. Globalization and the Church of the Poor. London: SCM Press.

Appleby, J. Kevin and Todd Scribner, eds. 2013. On “Strangers No Longer:” Perspectives on the Historic U.S.-Mexican Bishops’ Pastoral Letter on Migration. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press.
Groody, Daniel. 2007. Promised Land, A Perilous Journey: Theological Perspectives on Migration. New York: Orbis Press.
Heyer, Kristin. 2012. Kinship Across Borders: A Christian Ethic of Immigration. Georgetown University Press, Moral Traditions Series.
Heyer, Kristin. “Reframing Displacement and Membership: Ethics of Migration,” Theological Studies 73.1 (March 2012): 188-206.
Heyer, Kristin. “Social Sin and Immigration: Good Fences make Bad Neighbors,” Theological Studies 71.2 (June 2010): 410-436.
O’Neill, William. “A Little Common Sense: The Ethics of Immigration in Catholic Social Teaching.” American Journal of Economics & Sociology Vol. 71 Issue 4 (Oct 2012): 988-1003.

Duffy, Gavan. 2008. Labour and Justice: The Worker in Catholic Social Teaching. Herefordshire, England: Gracewing.
O’Brien, John. 2004. George G. Higgins and the Quest for Worker Justice: The Evolution of Catholic Social Thought in America. Lanham, MD.
Quigley, William. “The Living Wage and Catholic Social Thought.” America (August 28, 2006).

Allman, Mark and Tobias Winright. 2010. After the Smoke Clears: The Just War Tradition and Post War Justice. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
McElroy, Robert. “War Without End.” America Vol. 204 Issue 5 (February 21, 2011): 10-13.
McCarthy, Eli Sasaran. 2012. Becoming Nonviolent Peacemakers: A Virtue Ethic for Catholic Social Teaching and U.S. Policy. Wipf & Stock.

Hamm, Dennis and Gail S. Risch, eds. “Faithful Citizenship: Principles and Strategies that Serve the Common Good,” Journal of Religion & Society (2008).
Hollenbach, David J. 2002. The Common Good and Christian Ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Korzen, Chris, Alexia Kelley and Senator Robert P. Casey Jr., eds. 2008. A Nation for All: How the Catholic Vision of the Common Good Can Save America from the Politics of Division. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons.