{"id":43525,"date":"2021-08-30T14:34:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T14:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cappusa.wpengine.com\/?p=43525"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:45:05","slug":"the-state-and-the-economy-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5.capp-usa.org\/es\/2021\/08\/the-state-and-the-economy-article\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of the State and Economic Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section mosaic_width\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row et_pb_row_fullwidth\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_button_module_wrapper et_pb_button_0_wrapper\"><a class=\"et_pb_button_0 et_pb_button et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module hover-btn-border\" href=\"\/the-state-and-the-economy-article\/#newsletter\" data-icon=\"5\">Join our Newsletter<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module bullets-module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #054368;\">The State's Role Regarding Economic Activity<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #054368;\">by CAPP-USA<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">To Encourage a Free Economy<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_36059\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 400px;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36059 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/5.capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AdobeStock_138888689-.jpg\" alt=\"The state must act to encourage a free economy\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36059\" \/><\/h3>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-36059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The State Must Promote a Free Economy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Pope St. John Paul II identifies the role of the state as regards economic activity. What should, and must the state do, and not do, regarding encouraging a free economy?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Well, <strong>the State must<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_01051991_centesimus-annus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Centesimus Annus, 48)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Guarantee individual freedom.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Guarantee private property rights.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Ensure a stable currency. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Ensure efficient services are provided.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Creation conditions that will ensure job opportunities by:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">stimulating those activities where are lacking, and <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">supporting them in moments of crisis.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Intervene when monopolies create delays or obstacles to development.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In exceptional circumstances, the state should exercise a substitute function in a crisis or when getting started. This, however, must be as brief as possible.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The state should avoid enlarging excessively the sphere of state intervention to the detriment of both economic and civil freedoms.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">A Warning Against a Welfare State<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">On this last point Catholic social teaching has a special warning based on recent years where what Pope St. John Paul II called a new \"Welfare State\" and in its worst examples a \"Social Assistance State\" has developed whose malfunctions and defects result from an inadequate understanding of the tasks proper to the state. \"Here again the principle of Subsidiarity must be respected.\"<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_01051991_centesimus-annus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Centesimus Annus, 48)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catholic social teaching states that: \"By intervening directly and depriving society of its responsibility, <strong>the Social Assistance State leads to a loss of human energies<\/strong> and an inordinate increase in public agencies which are dominated more by bureaucratic ways of thinking than by concern for serving their clients, and which are accompanied by an enormous increase in spending. In fact, it would appear that needs are best understood and satisfied by people who are closest to them and who act as neighbors to those in need\". <span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_01051991_centesimus-annus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Pope St. John Paul II, 48)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pope St. John Paul II went on to state he \u201cfavors and promotes\u201d volunteerism and urged everyone to participate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This theme was echoed by Pope Benedict XVI when he said we need a State that \"generously acknowledges and supports initiatives arising from different social forces and combines spontaneity with closeness to those in need.\" <span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/benedict-xvi\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Pope Benedict XVI, 28)<\/a><\/span><\/span> And, later, \u201c<strong>subsidiarity is the most effective antidote against any form of all-encompassing welfare state<\/strong>.\" <span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/benedict-xvi\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Pope Benedict XVI, 57)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/5.capp-usa.org\/2023\/07\/divided-government-and-the-political-divide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Divided Government and the Political Divide<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; 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text-align: center;\">Catholic social teaching is built on three foundational principles -<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Human Dignity<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Solidarity\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Subsidiarity.\u00a0<\/strong>Human Dignity, embodied in a correct understanding of the human person, is the greatest. The others flow from it. Good governments and good economic systems find ways of fostering the three principles.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_slide_1 et_pb_slide et_pb_slide_with_image et_pb_media_alignment_center et_pb_bg_layout_dark et_pb_text_align_center et_clickable\" data-slide-id=\"divi\/slide-1\"><div class=\"et_pb_container\"><div class=\"et_pb_slider_container_inner\"><div class=\"et_pb_slide_image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/5.capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Human-Dignity.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/5.capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Human-Dignity.png 500w, https:\/\/5.capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Human-Dignity-480x480.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 500px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-40567\" \/><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_slide_description\"><h2 class=\"et_pb_slide_title\"><a href=\"\/human-dignity\/\" target=\"\" class=\"et_pb_slide_title_link\">Human Dignity<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"et_pb_slide_content\"><p style=\"text-align: center\">This means a correct understanding of the human person and of each person\u2019s unique value. All Catholic social teaching flows from this: the inherent dignity of every person that comes from being made in God\u2019s image.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_slide_2 et_pb_slide et_pb_slide_with_image et_pb_media_alignment_center et_pb_bg_layout_dark et_pb_text_align_center et_clickable\" data-slide-id=\"divi\/slide-2\"><div class=\"et_pb_container\"><div class=\"et_pb_slider_container_inner\"><div class=\"et_pb_slide_image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/5.capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Solidarity.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/5.capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Solidarity.png 500w, https:\/\/5.capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Solidarity-480x480.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 500px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-40568\" \/><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_slide_description\"><h2 class=\"et_pb_slide_title\"><a href=\"\/solidarity\/\" target=\"\" class=\"et_pb_slide_title_link\">Solidarity<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"et_pb_slide_content\"><p style=\"text-align: center\">Solidarity is not \u201ca feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of others. It is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good\u201d. <a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_30121987_sollicitudo-rei-socialis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Pope St. John Paul II, 38)<\/a> Love of God and love of neighbor are, in fact, linked and form one, single commandment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_slide_3 et_pb_slide et_pb_slide_with_image et_pb_media_alignment_center et_pb_bg_layout_dark et_pb_text_align_center et_clickable\" data-slide-id=\"divi\/slide-3\"><div class=\"et_pb_container\"><div class=\"et_pb_slider_container_inner\"><div class=\"et_pb_slide_image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/5.capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Subsidiarity.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/5.capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Subsidiarity.png 500w, https:\/\/5.capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Subsidiarity-480x480.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 500px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-40569\" \/><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_slide_description\"><h2 class=\"et_pb_slide_title\"><a href=\"\/subsidiarity\/\" target=\"\" class=\"et_pb_slide_title_link\">Subsidiarity<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"et_pb_slide_content\"><p style=\"text-align: center\">Subsidiarity \u201cis a fundamental principle of social philosophy, fixed and unchangeable, that one should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry. 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