Religion as a Virtue: Thomas Aquinas on Worship through Justice, Law, and Charity, by Prof. Robert Jared Staudt, Ph.D. Dissertation, Doctorate in Theology, Ave Maria University, 2008. Available in pdf format on this page, listed on the Reading Toolbox & Student Resources page, of Dr. Scott Hahn’s website.
Towards Reducing Unemployment: The Proceedings of the Fifth Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 3-6 March 1999 (Acta 5), edited by M. Archer (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 1999). 345 pages. Available in pdf format on this page of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
“Due Process, Community, and the Prince in the Evolution of the Ordo Iudiciarius”, by Kenneth Pennington, Ph.D., Rivista Internazionale Di Diritto Commune, Vol. 9 (1998): pp. 9-47. Available in pdf format at the CUA Law Scholarship Repository; and available at Academia.edu. A slightly revised version may be read online at Ken Pennington.
An excerpt containing Chapter IV (The Human Person and Human Rights) and Sections I to VI of Chapter V (Principles of the Church’s Social Doctrine) is available in pdf format at Villanova University. An excerpt containing Chapter V (Principles of the Church’s Social Doctrine) is available in pdf format on this page. A pdf document containing “Excerpts of Points Emphasized by St. Josemaría [Escriva]” is available at My Illinois State.
The Presentation of the ‘Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church’, Montecassino Abbey, 30 April 2006, by Renato Raffaele Cardinal Martino, with essays by Professor Edmond Malinvaud and Professor and former Senator Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 2006) is available in pdf format at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
The Intervention by Renato Raffaele Cardinal Martino at the Press Conference for the Presentation of the “Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church”, 25 October 2004 may be read online at the Holy See.
On the Feast of Saint Isidore the Worker, the anniversary of the Encyclical “Rerum Novarum” of Pope Leo XIII, and the secular observance of the International Day of Families. For other online texts and legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).
The Search for Universal Ethics: A New Look at Natural Law, by the International Theological Commission (2009), translated by Joseph Bolin, revised on March 25, 2010. May be read online on this page of Paths of Love: Catholic Vocation Discernment. Another translation entitled In Search of a Universal Ethic: A New Look at the Natural Law may be read online at the Holy See.
According to the text, it is drawn from a study prepared by a Subcommittee “composed of Msgr. Roland Minnerath, the Reverend Professors: P. Serge-Thomas Bonino OP (Chairman of the Subcommittee), Geraldo Luis Borges Hackmann, Pierre Gaudette, Tony Kelly CssR, Jean Liesen, John Michael McDermott SJ, of professors Dr. Johannes Reiter and Dr. Barbara Hallensleben, with the collaboration of Mgsr. Luis Ladaria SJ, Secretary General, and with the contributions of other members”, which was approved unanimously by the International Theological Commission in its session of December 1-6, 2008 and approved for publication by Cardinal William J. Levada.
Carta encíclica “Caritas in veritate” sobre el desarrollo humano integral en la caridad y en la verdad, del Papa Benedicto XVI, 29 de junio 2009. Disponible en Catholic.net y la Santa Sede.
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Carta encíclica “Deus caritas est” sobre el amor cristiano, del Papa Benedicto XVI, 25 de diciembre de 2005. Disponible en Catholic.net y la Santa Sede.
Compendio de la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia, del Pontificio Consejo « Justicia y Paz » (2004). Disponible en Opus Dei y la Santa Sede.
Instrucción sobre libertad cristiana y liberación “Libertatis conscientia”, de la Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe, 22 de marzo de 1986. Disponible en Catholic.net y la Santa Sede.
“La caridad en la verdad, de la que Jesucristo se ha hecho testigo con su vida terrenal y, sobre todo, con su muerte y resurrección, es la principal fuerza impulsora del auténtico desarrollo de cada persona y de toda la humanidad… La caridad es la vía maestra de la doctrina social de la Iglesia. Todas las responsabilidades y compromisos trazados por esta doctrina provienen de la caridad que, según la enseñanza de Jesús, es la síntesis de toda la Ley.”
[And if the grammar is wrong, please correct me. Gracias!]
O Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel… veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris, et umbra mortis.
Unjust Laws in a Democratic Society: Some Philosophical and Theological Reflections, by Dr. John M. Finnis, 71 Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 71, No. 4 (1995-1996): pp. 595-604. Available in pdf format on this page of NDLS Scholarship.
“An Introduction to the Just War Tradition”, by John F. Coverdale, Pace International Law Review, Volume 16, Issue 2 (Fall 2004): pp. 221-277. Available in pdf format at Pace Law School.
“Every trumpet blew, and every jar was shattered against its neighbour; and on three sides of the camp, after the crashing of the jars, men stood there with torches in their left hands, and ringing trumpets in their right; and now the cry came, Your swords, now! For the Lord and for Gedeon!” (Judges vii, 19-20. Italics supplied.)
“A good conscience has no need to go in fear of the magistrate, as a bad conscience does… [I]t is not for nothing that he bears the sword; he is God’s minister still, to inflict punishment on the wrong-doer”. (Romans xiii, 3-4)
“Justice and Charity in the Social Teaching of the Church”, by Roland Minnerath, in Charity and Justice in the Relations among Peoples and Nations: The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Acta 13: The Proceedings of the Plenary Session, 27 April – 1 May 2007, edited by Mary Ann Glendon, Juan José Llach, and Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 2007). Available in pdf format on this page of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
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