Cover of Catholic Social Science Review
Already a subscriber? - Login here
Not yet a subscriber? - Subscribe here

Browse by:



Displaying: 1-20 of 31 documents


part i. articles
1. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Elmar Nass A Christian Theory of Leadership Ethics
abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
There are libraries full of narrative guides based on practical experience and tips for good leadership. The mere recognition of man as the center of personnel management is insufficient to arrange and evaluate a theory’s ethical content. The first concern of this article will be the disclosure of the fundamental values currently underlying contemporary management models and the assessment of their ethical quality. The second concern of the article will be to show a coherent deductive approach from a Catholic point of view. A Christian theory of leadership ethics is developed starting from its source of values up to strategic entrepreneur decisions. Its merit is to suggest a conclusive Christian orientation for the assessment of codes of ethics and leadership cultures in enterprises, that, as an end in itself, clearly and plausibly places man at its center.
2. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Mark D. Popowski The Political Thought of Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
It is uncommon, especially in the United States of America (the vanguard of our democratic age), for people to oppose the supposed sanctity of democratic government--American Catholics included. They have tended toward, especially during the Cold War, the long-held evangelical Protestant view that democracy was God’s system (or at least was compatible with Catholicism). The Roman Catholic philosopher and public intellectual Frederick D. Wilhelmsen (1923-1996) lamented this liberal-democratic consensus; for him, American democracy was potentially anti-Christian, incompatible with the Kingship of Christ, in that ultimate authority in the social order tended to reside in the people, not Christ.
3. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Marc V. Rugani "Whose Justice? Which Rationality?" in Catholic Debates on a Living Wage: John A. Ryan’s Canons of Distributive Justice as Locus of Contested Traditions of Enquiry
abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
By applying Alasdair MacIntyre’s framework of rival traditions of rationality analogically to Catholic theologians and economists, this paper argues that these two groups can greatly benefit from a reexamination and appropriation of John A. Ryan’s insights when engaging debate on wage justice today, first by understanding the tradition out of which the Catholic Church established its rationale for justice regarding wages, and second by applying Ryan’s innovation of six “canons of distributive justice” for establishing commensurability of concepts in discourse between the traditions of moral theology and economic science. This paper argues that Ryan’s distinctive experience and character allowed him to enter into conversation with a non-native tradition of enquiry to draw forth commensurate concepts that improved the coherence of his native Catholic theological understanding and afforded greater opportunities to discourse with social scientists in meaningful argument for the sake of human welfare.
4. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Peter J. Colosi The HHS Mandate: A Question of Religious Freedom of the Life Issues?
abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
This three-part article will discuss: (1) The approach of the U.S. bishops in order to thank them and praise their efforts against the HHS Mandate, while at the same time respectfully pointing out a certain oversight in their approach; (2) some reasons not often mentioned for which the Obama Administration is enacting the HHS mandate; and (3) some ideas on how most wisely to approach the question of contraception in the midst of the fight for religious freedom. The article, written in 2012, is preceded by a preface outlining key developments in the intervening years between 2012 and 2015 and explaining the importance of looking now at a clear snapshot of where we were three years ago.
5. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Michael J. Barga Social Work and Cultural Competency with Roman Catholics
abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
Since the 1970s, issues in the political realm of the United States have increasingly created tension within religious communities including the Roman Catholic (RC) community. The divisions in the RC community are areas of difference which can lead to discrimination. While such divisions may always exist, the way in which these areas of difference within the RC community are recognized will play a factor in determining the level of discrimination experienced by RC individuals in different environments. This article will review how the term Catholic has been described in social work and related literature, which will enable a discussion of the future for social work in relating to differences within the RC community. The hope is for the social work profession to acknowledge areas of difference within the RC community and the potential for discrimination which occurs based on differing perspectives. By promoting a less political lexicon for tense topics and identifying areas of difference, the hope is to foster a respect for RCs of all opinions within the social work profession.
6. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
David F. Dieteman F. A. Hayek's Missing Piece: Christianity
abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
Friedrich Hayek is one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. A 1974 Nobel Prize winner for Economics, Hayek argues for the superiority of the free society over totalitarian, planned societies. Although Hayek arguably hit his target, he missed the bull’s-eye, because he failed to explain government and its prudential limits with reference to a complete view of human nature. This is partly because he failed to recognize that Christianity is the essence of Western civilization.
7. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Robert F. Gorman Revisiting Karl Jaspers's Axial Age Hypothesis: Natural Law as a Missing Link
abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
This article argues that Karl Jaspers’s account of the rise of the Axial Age phenomenon is deficient owing to his failure to consider the natural law as a plausible cause for its development. The Axial Age concept—which precedes Jaspers, who nevertheless popularized it—claims that widely separated civilizations from the Ancient Greeks and Hebrews to the Persian, Hindu, Buddhist, and Confucian cultures all began to display sophisticated political and moral development from 800–200 BC, without any known contact. Jaspers regarded its rise as a mystery. However, given ancient legal codes containing moral precepts long predating this period, the natural law hypothesis serves as the most plausible explanation of this ‘mystery’ of mankind’s dawning moral awareness.
part ii. book reviews
8. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Emil B. Berendt Andrew V. Abela and Joseph E. Capizzi (eds.), A Catechism for Business: Tough Ethical Questions & Insights from Catholic Teaching
view |  rights & permissions | cited by
9. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
William Zehringer Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis), Education for Choosing Life: Proposals for Difficult Times. Trans. Deborah Cole
view |  rights & permissions | cited by
10. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Hanael Bianchi Jay P. Corrin, Catholic Progressives in England After Vatican II
view |  rights & permissions | cited by
11. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Mary Clare Imparato Paul Farmer and Gustavo Gutierrez, In the Company of the Poor
view |  rights & permissions | cited by
12. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Richard S. Myers Stephen M. Krason (editor), The Crisis of Religious Liberty: Reflections from Law, History, and Catholic Social Thought
view |  rights & permissions | cited by
13. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Joshua W. Schulz Wilfred M. McClay and Ted V. McAllister (editors), Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America
view |  rights & permissions | cited by
14. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Adam Tate John C. Pinheiro, Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War
view |  rights & permissions | cited by
15. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
David M. Klocek Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
view |  rights & permissions | cited by
16. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Robert F. Gorman S. Adam Seagrave, The Foundations of Natural Morality: On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law
view |  rights & permissions | cited by
17. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Regis Martin John E. Thiel, Icons of Hope: The “Last Things” in Catholic Imagination
view |  rights & permissions | cited by
part iii. public and church affairs
18. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Stephen M. Krason What Seems to Be a Morally-Mandated Public Policy Position Really May Note Be
abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
This was one of SCSS President Stephen M. Krason’s “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic” columns that appeared during 2014 in Crisismagazine.com and The Wanderer and at his blog site (skrason.wordpress.com). It discusses how Catholic social teaching does not mandate particular public policies and must not be confused with a point of the teaching itself. It emphasizes that there can typically be many different policy approaches that can be used to make sure that moral demands are met.
19. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Stephen M. Krason Presidential Power: A Rescuer, Not a Nemesis
abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
This was one of SCSS President Stephen M. Krason’s “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic” columns that appeared during 2014 in Crisismagazine.com and The Wanderer and at his blog site (skrason.wordpress.com). He argues that, despite the criticism of President Obama’s seemingly excessive exercise of executive power to further an ideologically leftist secularist agenda, the strong and maybe unprecedented use of presidential power after him may be the most certain way to try to restore weakened American constitutional principles and traditional liberties and to begin to reverse our serious cultural decay.
20. Catholic Social Science Review: Volume > 20
Stephen M. Krason The Wrong Notion of Who and What Is God: At the Core of Modern Political Turmoil
abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
This was one of SCSS President Stephen M. Krason’s “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic” columns that appeared during 2014 in Crisismagazine.com and The Wanderer and at his blog site (skrason.wordpress.com). He argues that the common strain running through such political developments as the rise of Islamism, modern political ideologies, and contemporary leftism is the fact that, one way or the other, they represent man trying to make himself God. To paraphrase Irving Babbitt and others, as the notion of God goes, so goes philosophy, and society and culture, and politics, and economics—the religious outlook is at the core of all other perspectives.