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Render Unto Caesar

luegi — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:02:46 +0000

As far as the Church is concerned, decisions on taxation and government spending need to be driven by human dignity and serving the common good. To address this, the Department for Social Justice of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has published a document on taxation called Render Unto Caesar. Download

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Chapter Eight: Government Debt – from inter-generational injustice to an occasion of sin

luegi — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:54:00 +0000

Philip BoothProfessor of Finance, Public Policy and Ethics, St Mary’s University, Twickenham. and Director of Policy and Research, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. What should governments do and how should they finance it? Throughout the ages, governments and monarchies financed spending by borrowing from various sources when they were unable or unwilling to […]

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Chapter Seven: The Taxing Question of Living Wages

luegi — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:53:20 +0000

Marc BesfordFormer National President of Young Christian Workers. This reflection on taxation looks beyond the tax and welfare system. There is discussion in Catholic circles about the way in which the tax system should be shaped, whether taxes should be increased or reduced, and how the welfare system should be designed. However, whilst the state […]

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Chapter Six: Catholic social teaching, Welfare and Taxation

luegi — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:52:38 +0000

Russell SparkesFormer Deputy Investment Manager of the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church and visiting fellow, St Mary’s University, Twickenham. We cannot separate a discussion of taxation from a discussion of the legitimate role of the state in the provision of welfare. Whilst the Church, in her formal social teaching, has said relatively little […]

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Chapter Five: Taxation and the Family in the UK

luegi — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:51:47 +0000

Andrei E. RogobeteAssociate Director, Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics. Introduction At one and the same time, the Christian faith recognises both our unique individual calling from God to holy righteousness (or sanctification) in and through Christ as well as our place within society, living in solidarity with others. This call to righteousness requires, as […]

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Chapter Four: Building from the Bottom Up – Catholic social teaching, society and the state

luegi — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:51:07 +0000

Ruth KellyMember, Vatican Council for the economy. The purpose of this contribution is not to develop this from first principles but to help us understand how we should see the current development of politics, bearing in mind the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic. This then has implications for some aspects of how we should see […]

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Chapter Two: Taxation in Catholic Scholastic Thought

luegi — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:49:34 +0000

André Azevedo AlveAssociate Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal’s Institute for Political Studies and the Director of the Institute’s research centre. The legitimacy of taxation – St Thomas Aquinas Approaching the tradition of Catholic social thought on taxation is not an easy task as the subject did not historically merit detailed treatment in the […]

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Chapter One: Taxation in Catholic Social Teaching

luegi — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:47:52 +0000

Gareth RoweCAFOD, Durham research fellow Anna RowlandsSt. Hilda Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice, University of Durham. “The council exhorts Christians, as citizens of two cities, to strive to discharge their earthly duties conscientiously and in response to the Gospel spirit. They are mistaken who, knowing that they have hereno abiding city but seek […]

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Introduction

luegi — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:46:39 +0000

Philip BoothDirector of Policy and Research, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales Catholic social teaching sees the role of the state in a positive light, built on the fact that human beings are, by nature, social. Although we express our need for socialisation through many other institutions within society, government has a particular role. […]

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Foreword

luegi — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:46:02 +0000

Questions related to taxation and government spending are hotly contested in the political sphere. It may be thought that the Catholic Church should keep out of such debates and leave them to politicians. However, as was said at the presentation of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church by Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino: […]

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