The Framework of a Christian State

by Edward J. Cahill, S.J.

With religious freedom threatened, Roman Catholic Books is bringing back the finest volume about Catholic social teaching. The real social teachings of the Church, developed over centuries by a long line of popes, saints and approved Catholic thinkers, are quite different from modern liberalism. This monumental volume, once a standard reference, covers the range of those teachings, their basis in Catholic doctrine, and how they apply to modern society. A Which form of government is closest to the Catholic ideal; Principles of just taxation and how citizens may respond when taxes are unjust; The benefits of social inequality; Private not just permissible, but necessary to social peace and welfare; Why state monopoly of education is among the worst modern evils; The function of parents in education and the importance of home training; Letter to Catholic educators from Pius XI, on sex education and co-education; The rights and responsibilities of labor unions and when strikes are permissible; The Golden Age of Christian not perfect, but it can teach moderns; The duties and rights of employers and employed with Catholic view of a just wage; Four basic types of states and only one the ideal for Catholics; Nine principles for a just democracy; and Communism, socialism, Histories & critiques. Detailed Table of Contents and 25-page index speed you to sound Catholic answers to more than 2000 questions Footnotes point you to hundreds of Church documents, primary sources and important references.

Genres: Philosophy, Catholic

700 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2012

About the author

Rev. Fr. Edward J. Cahill, S.J., Irish Jesuit priest and academic, was educated in theology at Maynooth, and ordained a priest in 1897. He served on the staff of Mungret College and in the years before the Easter Rising he was known for facilitating Irish Volunteers in their training in Mungret. In 1924, he joined the staff of the Jesuit Milltown Park Institute in Dublin as Professor of Church History, Lecturer in Sociology, and later, Spiritual Father.

In October 1926, on the occasion of the first celebration of the Feast of Christ the King, he founded "An Ríoghacht", the League of the Kingship of Christ. The object of this society was to ensure the use of Catholic Social Teaching in the Irish Free State. "An Ríoghacht", under Fr. Cahill's guidance, organised public meetings three or four times a year, published pamphlets on current topics and even attempted to produce a weekly paper to further its ideals. This organisation would go on to form the basis of Fr. Denis Fahey's Maria Duce.

He was a regular contributor to the Irish Ecclesiastical Record and the Irish Monthly. His works often stressed the link between Catholicism and nationalism.

He died on 16 July 1941, aged 73, after a long illness.

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[Ioseph Bonifacius (Ioannes)]

The understanding of the Catholic state and Catholic political philosophy according to the eternal magisterium of the Catholic Church.

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