Join the IHE for a thoughtful discussion with V. Bradley Lewis, moderated by Father Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.
The past few years have seen a burst of interest in the ancient idea of the common good as the purpose and standard of political life. Catholic Social Teaching has characterized the common good as an ensemble of conditions that allow persons and groups to pursue their fulfilment.
The history of Catholic Social Teaching shows this formulation to be not a modern deviation, but the outcome of an attempt to apply classical notions of the common good to the political context of the modern state.
