Reclaiming Catholic Social Teaching
A Defense of the Church's True Teachings on Marriage, Family, and the State
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by Anthony Esolen
Pages: 208
Format(s): Paperback or Audio CD
ISBN: 978-1-622821-82-2
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In Reclaiming Catholic Social Teaching, Anthony Esolen pulls back the curtain on these false philosophers, showing how they've undermined the authentic teachings of the Church in order to neutralize the biggest threat to their plans for secularization — the Catholic Church.
Esolen explains that Catholic Social Teaching isn't focused exclusively on serving the poor. Indeed, it offers us a rich treasure of insights about the nature of man, his eternal destiny, the sanctity of marriage, and the important role of the family in building a coherent and harmonious society.
Catholic Social Teaching offers a unified worldview. What the Church says about the family is inextricable from what she says about the poor: and what she says about the Eucharist informs the essence of her teachings on education, the arts — and even government.
You will step away from these pages with a profound understanding of the root causes of the ills that afflict our society, and — thanks to Anthony Esolen — well equipped to propose compelling remedies for them.
Only an authentically Catholic culture provides for a stable and virtuous society that allows Christians to do the real work that can unite rich and poor.
We must reclaim Catholic Social Teaching if we are to transform our society into the ideal mapped out by the Church: a land of sinners, yes, but one enriched with love of God and neighbor and sustained by the very heart of the Church's social teaching: the most holy Eucharist.
Among the many vital topics covered in this compelling book:
THE SOCIAL NEED FOR RELIGION
Why the survival of civil society demands that we make moral judgments
A good and a true society: learn in detail what it would look like
Secular humanism: why it’s a contradiction in terms
Why a city without God is not a bad city: it’s no city
HUMAN LIBERTY
Why Pope Leo denounced the “thirst for novelty,” and the “lost for new things” – and why you must, too
Why true piety always gives the benefit of the doubt to what has come from our forefathers
Why every government that rejects the natural law will fall
Government gridlock: it’s inevitable in a godless society (Pope Leo foretold it over a century ago)
Us or them: Why the secular state must crush the Church
MARRIAGE
What even pagans understand about marriage (but America has forgotten)
How acceptance of divorce corrodes all other human relations, mortally wounding society itself
The inner unity between Catholic teachings about sex and Catholic teachings about society
Sexual sin: Pope Leo shows how it leads either to chaos or (yes!) to rule by a totalitarian State
THE FAMILY
Parental rights: how they can neither be abolished nor absorbed by the state
The family: it’s not defined by the state (Indeed, the state comes forth from the family and must answer to them)
The one thing parents must be sure to teach their children (Are you doing it?)
SOCIAL LIFE
Why government is always less effective than free associations of men and women
Hands off! Why rulers have no right to interfere in religious organizations
The Boy Scouts: Pope Leo shows why its rules are not the business of government
Catholic hospitals: Why secular governments must inevitably come to hate – and attempt to destroy — the church’s charitable work with the poor and downcast. Pope Leo predicted it hundred years ago
THE CHURCH AS A SOCIETY
Religion — and religion alone — can create genuine communities (Can you explain why?)
How the church herself is the consummate society
Authority: moderns hate it, but it is both necessary and blessed.
Democracy: religion can thrive without it, but democracy collapses without religion.
THE STATE
The four obligations of every state: how their fulfillment promotes the moral and material prosperity of all its citizens
Private ownership: why the state should not only favor but must foster it
True culture: how it’s opposed to mass education, mass politics, and mass entertainment
Families: they are not measured by the good they bring to the state; the state is measured by the good it brings families
The Politics of Envy by Anne Hendershott
Holy Water and Its Significance for Catholics
A Priest Answers 27 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Fr. Michael Kerper
Forty Reasons I Am a Catholic by Dr. Peter Kreeft
Forty Anti-Catholic Lies
A Mythbusting Apologist Sets the Record Straight
Catholic Faith Explained by Michel Therrien
Diaries of the Chinese Martyrs
Stories of Heroic Catholics Living in Mao’s China
The Roman Catacombs
A History of the Christian City Beneath Pagan Rome
How Christianity Saved Civilization
...And Must Do So Again
Infiltration - The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within
Our Lady’s Wardrobe by Anthony DeStefano
Spiritual Warfare and the Discernment of Spirits
A Catholic Scientist Proves God Exists
Getting Free - How to Overcome Persistent Personal Problems
Temptations - Where they Come From, What They Mean, and How to Defeat Them
Exorcist Explains How to Heal Possessed and Help Souls Suffering Spiritual Crises
The Art of Spiritual Warfare, The Secret Weapons Satan Can't Withstand
Father Amorth - My Battle Against Satan
Exorcist Explains the Demonic - The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels
Around the Year with the Trapp Family
by Maria Augusta Von Trapp
Can a Catholic Be a Democrat?
How the Party I Loved Became the Enemy of My Religion
Mother Angelica on Suffering and Burnout
Anti-Catholic Myths Debunked - Five Common Misconceptions Answered and Explained
Priest Answers 27 Questions - You Never Thought to Ask by Fr. Michael Kerper
Mother Angelica’s Quick Guide to the Sacraments
Vision of Fatima by Fr. Thomas McGlynn
In Heaven We’ll Meet Again
The Saints and Scripture on our Heavenly Reunion
Our Lady’s Message
To Three Shepherd Children and the World
Surprised by Life by Patrick Madrid
Mass Revision
How The Liturgy Is Changing And What It Means For You
Behold Your Mother
A Biblical and Historical Defense of the Marian Doctrines
Aquinas Catechism
A Simple Explanation of the Catholic Faith by the Church's Greatest Theologian
Scriptural Roots of Catholic Teaching
How the Bible Proves the Truth of the Catholic Faith
Biblical Defense of Catholicism, A
Half-Truths
What's Right (and What's Wrong) in The Ideas You Live By
Rapture
The End-Times Error That Leaves the Bible Behind
Catholic Verses
95 Bible Passages That Confound Protestants
Holy See’s Teaching on Catholic Schools
Memorize the Faith!
(And Almost Anything Else) Using Methods Taught by the Great Catholic Medieval Memory Masters
What is the Bible?
Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths
A Source Book for Apologists and Inquirers
One-Minute Apologist, The
Essential Catholic Replies to Over 60 Protestant Claims
Always Inspired
Why Bible-Believing Christians Need the Catholic Church
St Augustine Answers 101 Questions on Prayer
Understanding Miracles
How to Know if They Are from God, the Devil, or the Imagination
Quotable Newman
A Definitive Guide to His Central Thoughts and Ideas
Sign of the Cross
The Fifteen Most Powerful Words in the English Language
Most Holy Eucharist
Our Passover and Our Living Bread
Canon Law Explained
A Handbook for Laymen
Rebuilding Catholic Culture
How the Catechism Can Shape Our Common Life
Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church
Catechesi Tradendae
On Catechesis in Our Time
Lord’s Prayer
Understanding the 55-Word Catechim Jesus gave Us
Sign of the Cross
The Fifteen Most Powerful Words in the English Language
Can a Catholic Be a Democrat?
How the Party I Loved Became the Enemy of My Religion
One-Minute Aquinas - The Doctor's Quick Answers to Fundamental Questions
True or False Possession? - Book
How to Distinguish the Demonic from the Demented
Demons, Deliverance, and Discernment
Separating Fact From Fiction About The Spirit World
Discover Your Next Mission from God - Book
Saints who found God's will — and how you can too
Hounds of the Lord - Book
Great Dominican Saints Every Catholic Should Know
Experience Grace in Abundance - Book
Ten Strategies for Your Spiritual Life
God’s Healing Mercy - Book
Finding Your Path to Forgiveness, Peace, and Joy
Love and Mercy Teacher’s Guide - Book
The Story of Salvation
Relics from the Crucifixion - Book
Where They Went and How They Got There
Holy Year in Rome - Book
The Complete Pilgrim’s Guide for the Year of Mercy
Praying with Mother Angelica - Book
Meditations on the Rosary and the Way of the Cross
Rocket Ships and God
A Rocket Scientist Puts Faith to the Test
Church Ascending
How the Saints and Sinners Brought About the Triumph of Christianity in the West
BIBLES
Catholic Prophecy: Prophecy: Full Prophecy: Text of The Third Secret of Fatima - Complete Text
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and Videos on Padre Pio
Videos and Books on Sr. Faustina and Divine Mercy plus Diary
of Sr. Faustina
ROMAN CATHOLIC BIBLES - Family Bibles, Spanish Bibles, Church, School and Catholic Study Bible Edidions
Bishop Fulton Sheen - Audio CDs, Music and Free MP3 Music Downloads, Videos and Books
THE DOUAY-RHEIMS BIBLE - Now in
Larger Print!
Why Should You Read Only the Douay-Rheims Translation of the Bible?
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