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Catholic Social Teaching: Toward a More Humane Economy | Prof. Andrew Abela

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This talk was given on November 3, 2022, at Texas A&M University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Andrew Abela is the founding dean of the Busch School of Business and Ordinary Professor of Marketing at The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C. His research on the integrity of the marketing process, including marketing ethics, Catholic Social Doctrine, and internal communication, has been published in several academic journals, including the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of Business Ethics, and the Journal of Markets & Morality, and in two books. He is the co-editor of A Catechism for Business, from Catholic University Press, and winner of the 2009 Novak Award, a $10,000 prize given by the Acton Institute for “significant contributions to the study of the relationship between religion and economic liberty.” Dr. Abela also provides consulting and training in internal communications; recent clients of his include Microsoft Corporation, JPMorganChase, and the Corporate Executive Board. Prior to his academic career, he spent several years in industry as brand manager at Procter & Gamble, management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and Managing Director of the Marketing Leadership Council of the Corporate Executive Board. He holds a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, an MBA from the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland, and a Ph.D. in Marketing and Ethics from the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia. He and his wife, Kathleen, live in Great Falls, Virginia with their six children.

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0:00.0

This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.

0:03.6

For more talks like this, visit us at tamistic institute.org.

0:11.3

Howdy?

0:12.1

Howdy?

0:13.1

Howdy? Howdy?

0:13.7

I was told I had to say that.

0:15.5

All right.

0:16.7

Good.

0:17.7

Let me ask you a few questions if I could.

0:19.9

So how many of you are Catholic? How many of you know something about Catholic social teaching? How many know what subsidiarity is?

0:29.6

Okay. Okay. Good. All right. It's a good place to start. How many of you know where Catholic social teaching begins in the history of the Catholic Church?

0:43.8

Is it Rarum Navarum?

0:45.4

Rerum Navarum is an encyclical letter by Pope Leo the 13th, which we'll talk about.

0:50.3

And it is the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.

0:54.5

Pre-modern Catholic social teaching begins with Genesis, right?

0:59.7

Because Catholic social teaching is basically the application of church teaching to everyday life,

1:04.7

particularly political, social, and economic life.

1:07.6

So, of course, starting with Genesis makes sense.

1:12.9

I'm going to focus on the economic life, because that's what I know about. That's my area. So I would stay with that. And we'll focus on

1:19.9

the modern part, but we'll go back to St. Thomas Aquinas as well, because a lot of modern Catholic

1:25.2

social teaching is grounded in his work as well.

1:29.7

So we mentioned already Pope Leo the 13th in 1891

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