social Catholicism

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Social Catholicism is a Christian-inspired social and political movement that applies Catholic social teaching to issues of labor, economics, and social justice, often advocating reforms to protect human dignity and the common good.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
social Catholicism canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian social movement
political movement
social movement
advocatesFor fair wages
protection of workers
regulation of capitalism
social welfare measures
aimsTo apply Christian ethics to social problems
promote social peace
reconcile capital and labor
basedOn Catholic social teaching
emergedInCentury 19th century
emergedInCountry France
emergedInRegion Western Europe
emphasizes moral responsibility in economic life
priority of the family in social order
priority of the person over the market
focusesOn economic justice
labor issues
social reform
workers' rights
hasCoreConcern common good
human dignity
social justice
solidarity
subsidiarity
hasIdeologicalPosition anti-communist
anti-liberal in economics
reformist
hasReligiousTradition Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
influencedBy Quadragesimo Anno
social encyclical Rerum Novarum
surface form: Rerum Novarum

papal encyclicals on social issues
inspired Catholic worker movements
Christian democratic parties
Christian trade unions
normativelyGroundedIn Christian anthropology
natural law
opposes Marxist socialism
laissez-faire liberalism
relatedConcept Catholic social teaching
surface form: Catholic social action

Christian democracy
distributism
seeks corporatist or associative structures
state intervention for social protection
supports cooperatives
social legislation
trade unions

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Luigi Sturzo movement social Catholicism
Amintore Fanfani ideology social Catholicism