American Catholicism, Catholic Charities U.S.A., and Welfare Reform

Journal of Policy History

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 73-108

  Coleman, John A ^a  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85012521907     PISSN: 08980306     EISSN: 15284190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jph.2001.0021     Document Type: Article

References (85)

1. Thomas Massaro, Catholic Social Teaching and United States Welfare Reform (Collegeville, Minn. 1998).
2. Cited in R. W. Apple, “His Battle Now Lost: Moynihan Still Cries Out,” New York Times, 2 August 1996, A16.
3. This list can be found in Thomas Reese, A Flock of Shepherds: The National Conference of Catholic Bishops (Kansas City, Mo. 1992), 187-88.
4. For the history, see Dorothy Brown and Elizabeth McKeown, The Poor Belong to Us: Catholic Charities and American Welfare (Cambridge, Mass. 1997).
5. Joseph Cardinal Bernadin, Consistent Ethic of Life (Kansas City, Mo. 1988).
6. Peter McDonough and Josephina Figueira-McDonough, “The Evolution of Catholic Family Policy,” unpublished research proposal, Arizona State University, Department of Political Science, p. 35.
7. For several reliable introductions to Catholic social thought, see David Hollenbach, Claims in Conflict (New York, 1979)
8. Jean Calvez, The Church and Social Justice (Chicago, 1961)
9. Donal Dorr, Option for the Poor (Maryknoll, N.Y. 1992)
10. Michael J. Schuck, That They be One: The Social Teaching of the Papal Encyclicals (Washington, D.C. 1991).
11. see David O’Brien and Thomas Shannon, eds. Catholic Social Thought: The Documentary Heritage (Maryknoll, N.Y. 1992).
12. Thomas Hoppe, “Human Rights,” in Judith Dwyer, ed. A New Dictionary of Catholic Social Thought (Collegeville, Minn. 1994).
13. The concept of a Catholic appeal to needs is developed in William O’Neil, “Commonweal or Woe? The Ethics of Welfare Reform,” Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 11, no. 2 (1997): 487-505.
14. Pacem in Terris, in O’Brien and Shannon, Catholic Social Thought, 137–57.
15. For a more “secular” public-policy argument, cognate to the Catholic case, to subsistence needs as grounding rights, see Henry Shue, Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton, 1996).
16. David Hollenbach, “The Common Good,” in Dwyer, New Dictionary of Catholic Social Thought, 193.
17. Mater et Magistra #60, “Christianity and Social Progress,” in O’Brien and Shannon, Catholic Social Thought, 146.
18. Pacem in Terris, in O’Brien and Shannon, Catholic Social Thought, 141.
19. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, ed. John Gray (New York, 1990), 72.
20. Isaiah Berlin, “Two Concepts of Liberty,” in Four Essays on Liberty (New York, 1969), 118, 122
21. John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York, 1993), 99-107.
22. William Galston, Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues and Diversity in the Liberal State (New York, 1991).
23. Philip Selznick, The Moral Commonwealth Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1992, 537.
24. Selznick, The Moral Commonwealth, 537.
25. See John A. Coleman, S.J. “A Common Good Primer,” Dialog 34 (Fall 1995), 249–54.
26. For a denial of the sovereignty of the state, see Jacques Maritain, Man and the State (Chicago, 1951), 194-95.
27. Hollenbach, “The Common Good,” 195-96.
28. The citation from Quadragesimo Anno, “Forty Years Afterwards,” #80 in O’Brien and Shannon, Catholic Social Thought, 60.
29. John Paul II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, “On Social Concern,” #40 in O’Brien and Shannon, Catholic Social Thought, 421.
30. Jonathan Boswell, “Catholic Social Thinking: Is It Underdeveloped?” manuscript for a Cambridge University conference on the Future of Catholic Social Teaching, 9–10.
31. Michael Schuck, “Modern Catholic Social Thought,” in Dwyer, Dictionary of Catholic Social Thought, 630–31.
32. See Hugh Heclo, “General Welfare and Two American Traditions,” Political Science Quarterly 101 (1986): 179-96.
33. Herbert McClosky and John Zaller, The American Ethos: Public Attitudes Toward Capitalism and Democracy (Cambridge, Mass. 1984).
34. Peter McDonough and Josephina Figueira-McDonough, “The Evolution of Catholic Family Policy,” 12.
35. Boswell, “Catholic Social Thinking: Is It Underdeveloped?” 8.
36. Hollenbach, Claims in Conflict, 187.
37. McDonough and Figueira-McDonough, “The Evolution of Catholic Family Policy,” 7.
38. For the preferential option for the poor, see Donal Dorr, Option for the Poor, 1-7, 193-95, 376-77. On Catholic concepts of work as a vocation, see William May, “The Theology of Work,” in Dwyer, The Dictionary of Catholic Thought, 991-1002, and
39. John Paul II's encyclical on Human Work, in O’Brien and Shannon, Catholic Social Thought, 352–92.
40. The American bishops' letters on nuclear weapons and economic justice are in O’Brien and Shannon, Catholic Social Thought, 492–571, 572-680.
41. Michael Novak, Moral Clarity in the Nuclear Age (Nashville, 1983)
42. Michael Novak, Freedom with Justice: Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions (San Francisco, 1984).
43. I treat some of this range in my “Neither Liberal nor Socialist,” in John Coleman, S.J. ed. One Hundred Years of Catholic Social Thought (Maryknoll, N.Y. 1991), 25-42.
44. “Economic Justice for All,” #20 in O’Brien and Shannon, Catholic Social Thought, 576.
45. “Economic Justice for All,” #131 in O’Brien and Shannon, Catholic Social Thought, 609.
46. Bryan Hehir, “The Right and Competence of the Church in the American Case,” in Coleman, One Hundred Years of Catholic Social Thought, 55–71.
47. Gaudium et Spes #3, in O’Brien and Shannon, Catholic Social Thought, 167.
48. Dignitatis Humanae, in David O’Brien and Thomas Shannon, eds. Renewing the Earth (Garden City, N.Y. 1977), 295.
49. O’Brien and Shannon, eds. Renewing the Earth, 391.
50. For the evolution in American Catholicism in attitudes toward the state and public policy, see David O’Brien, Public Catholicism (New York, 1989).
51. José Casanova, Public Religions in the Modern World (Chicago, 1994).
52. In O’Brien and Shannon, Renewing the Earth, 297.
53. Hollenbach, Claims in Conflict, 189.
54. For the new competition (or threat?) to religious and nonreligious nonprofit welfare providers by for-profit providers, see William P. Ryan, “The New Landscape for Nonprofits,” Harvard Business Review (January-February 1999): 127–36.
55. For a treatment of USCC and policy, see Reese, A Flock of Shepherds, 187–224.
56. For a complaint about theologically untutored policy workers driving some Protestant denominational policy in the United Methodist Church, see Robert Bellah et al. The Good Society (New York, 1991), 196.
57. Reese, A Flock of Shepherds, 210.
58. A rejection of trying to make Catholics into a voting block is found in Bernard Cardinal Law, “Christian Coalition's Catholic Alliance,” in Origins 25 (15 February 1996): 574–77.
59. Stephen Johnson and Joseph Tamney, eds. The Political Role of Religion in the United States (Boulder, 1986), 223.
60. Allan Hertzke, Representing God in Washington: The Role of Religious Lobbies in the American Polity (Knoxville, 1988), 81.
61. Fred Kammer, Salted with Fire (New York, 1995).
62. Melanie diPietro, “Organizational Overview,” in Catholic Charities U.S.A.: Who Do You Say We Are?-Perspectives on Catholic Identity in Catholic Charities (Alexandria, Va. 1998), 29.
63. Brown and McKeown, The Poor Belong to Us, 11.
64. Edward Ryle, “Catholic Charities: The American Experience,” Catholic Charities U.S.A. (January-February 1987): 14 (the whole two-part article, pp. 8-24, is a good overview of the history and organizational development of Catholic Charities U.S.A.
65. “Economic Justice for All,” #210 in O’Brien and Shannon, Catholic Social Thought, 625.
66. “Economic Justice for All,” #211 in O’Brien and Shannon, Catholic Social Thought, 626.
67. “Transforming the Welfare State,” Catholic Charities U.S.A. 24 January 1994.
68. “Connecticut Bishops' Welfare Reform and Basic Human Needs,” Origins 24 (8 December 1994): 435.
69. Bishop John Ricard, “The Factors of Genuine Welfare Reform,” Origins 24 (9 February 1995): 564.
70. Bishops of Florida, “Promoting Meaningful Welfare Reform,” Origins 24 (2 March 1995): 610–12.
71. “Moral Principles and Policy Priorities for Welfare Reform,”, Origins 24 (30 March 1995): 673–77.
72. Fred Kammer, “Why Some Welfare Reform Proposals Can Backfire,” Origins 24 (30 March 1995): 565–70.
73. Bernard Cardinal Law, “Christian Coalition's Catholic Alliance,” 574.
74. “Moral Principles and Priorities,” #6-7.
75. “Transforming the Welfare System,” 12.
76. Kammer, “Why Some Welfare Reform Proposals Can Backfire,” 567.
77. Massaro, Catholic Social Teaching and United States Welfare Reform, 159.
78. “Moral Principles and Priorities,” #5.
79. “Transforming the Welfare System,” 7.
80. For the history of American welfare policy and its earlier recognition of need as a moral claim, see Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of SocialPolicy in the United States (Cambridge, Mass. 1992).
81. Mary Jo Bane and David Ellwood, Welfare Realities: From Rhetoric to Reform (Cambridge, Mass. 1994).
82. Mary Jo Bane, “Poverty, Welfare, and the Role of the Churches,” America (4 December 1999): 8–11.
83. “Moral Principles and Policy Priorities,” #4.
84. See “Responding to Welfare Reform: A Report from Catholic Charities USA,” Catholic Charities U.S.A. Alexandria, Va. September 1998.
85. Massaro, Catholic Social Teaching and United States’ Welfare Reform, 181–88.