A Catechism for Business: Tough Ethical Questions and Insights from Catholic Teaching - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813228840 ISBN 13: 9780813228846

Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016

Synopsis

This second edition streamlines some of the editing from the first addition, and more importantly, includes material from Pope Francis's encyclical, Laudato Si', and his apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium. A Catechism for Business presents the teachings of the Catholic Church as they relate to more than one hundred specific and challenging moral questions as they have been asked by business leaders. Andrew V. Abela and Joseph E. Capizzi have assembled the relevant quotations from recent Catholic social teaching as responses to these questions. Questions and answers are grouped together under major topics such as marketing, finance and investment. The book's easy-to-use question and answer approach invites quick reference for tough questions and serves as a basis for reflection and deeper study in the rich Catholic tradition of social doctrine.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

 
This is a fantastic repository!  It should be mandatory reading for any Catholic in business, and recommended reading for any non-Catholic interested in what the Church really teaches.
Patrick Lencioni, author of The Advantage and The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
 

The Church's social teachings are a "best-kept secret" because they are often presented as answers without questions.  Dr. Capizzi and Dean Abela have provided the questions, from the heart of the business enterprise, along with accurate but succinct responses from Catholic social doctrine.  In their expert hands, the teaching has a chance to be heard.
Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago
 
 
Work is not only a necessary activity but a beautiful expression of our creative nature, and this book is a vital resource for anyone who wishes to align work--and the workplace--according to God's love and vision of the human person. Authors Abela and Capizzi do a great service to Christians in providing the most relevant Catholic teachings on the matters of labor, business, employment, wages, economic systems, and a myriad of related issues so relevant and so contentious in today's world.
Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight, Knights of Columbus, and author, A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World
 
 
Businessmen and theologians are like distant cousins, and often they're just not on speaking terms. If anything can bring them into conversation, it's this superb catechism, which achieves the minor miracle of being both erudite and readable.
John L. Allen Jr., Senior Correspondent, National Catholic Reporter
 
 
Every Catholic CEO needs to read and study this book.
Tim Busch, CEO, Pacific Hospitality Group and Chairman, Napa Institute
 

About the Author:

Andrew V. Abela is the Provost of the Catholic University of America. Joesph E. Capizzi is the Director of Moral Theology in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America

About this edition

• Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0813228840
• ISBN 13: 9780813228846
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 184
• Editor: Abela Andrew V, Capizzi Joesph E