ABSTRACT

            This study depicts the social teaching of the church as the application of Christian concepts to the review of the present socio-economic structures and to the construction of a more truly human, social, and economic order.  The church teaches these principles and perspectives directly.  She defends and protects these values by her judgments on erroneous paradigms such as liberalism, communism, and Nazism or the economic structures, which threaten them such as technocracy and state totalitarianism.  The church proposes the concrete application of these principles on vocational organizations and she furthers their application as conditions and place demands

KEYWORDS: socio-economic, liberalism, communism, Nazism, totalitarianism