Catholic Social Teaching (CST) is the body of doctrine developed by the Catholic Church on economic and social matters, beginning with Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum (1891). Its key principles include human dignity, solidarity, subsidiarity, the common good, and preferential option for the poor.
The most developed tradition of theological social ethics, offering a coherent alternative to both capitalism and socialism grounded in natural law and the dignity of the person.
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