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John A. Ryan was said to look less than he was. Scruffy, cranky and always half away in whichever book he was reading at the time. He was born the first of eleven children and educated sporadically in a one room schoolhouse. After working on the family farm to keep his mother and younger siblings afloat, at the earliest opportunity John chose the priesthood as his occupation. After graduate study Ryan began to lobby for social change. Concerns that still rattle around our halls of assembly and power. He wanted a living wage, a shorter work week and protection for women and children enforced by the law. Father Ryan was instrumental in his contribution to the cause of installing a minimum wage across several states, laying the groundwork for millions to benefit in the future. The basis of Ryan's theory was a belief in the god given rights of every person which according to his rationale imposed on the state, the moral responsibility to take redistributive action to relieve suffering. His book is in many respects as radical today as it was in his heyday. Whilst not all readers will share the Catholic faith, his lateral reasoning is impeccable and his conclusions are socially compassionate. He argues that our economic reasoning has become artificially detached from our ethics, and that an urgent reassessment is needed. Whether one comes to agree or not, 'The State and the Church' provokes each of us to reassess the relationship between pragmatic reasoning and moral thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Religion and Public Life is a collection of papers delivered at a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Msgr. John A. Ryan, who was the most prominent and influential American advocate of the Catholic social tradition in the first half of the twentieth century. He was a rare combination of scholar, priest, and political realist. Most of his career was spent in Washington, D.C., where he was both a professor at the Catholic University of America and a principal representative of the American bishops to Congress. This collection serves as a fine introduction to Ryan's thought as well as a survey of some of the more pressing current issues in the Catholic social tradition.
This work endeavors to set forth the teaching of the Catholic Church concerning the State. In the first chapter will be found the most authoritative doctrine that we possess regarding the nature, authority, and object of the State, and the relations that should subsist between the State and the Church. Practically all the rest of the book is devoted to the development and specific application of these general principles. The second chapter discusses certain declarations of the first which have been the subject of more or less controversy. Chapters III and IV present a comprehensive treatment and defense of the doctrine that governments and rulers derive their moral authority from God through the people. The development of this doctrine in Catholic political theory, and its bearing upon modern democratic theory, are treated at length in the next three chapters. It is believed Fhat these three chapters constitute a distinct contribution to the history of American political principles. The remaining chapters deal mainly with the purpose and scope of the State and the ethical relations existing between it and the citizen.
Profiles the lives and achievements of more than 270 spiritual leaders, arranged alphabetically, who made major contributions to the history of American religious life.