Catholic Social Teaching and Distributism

Michael Hickey is a graduate of Northeastern University, Boston, MA, and a Master of Divinity Studies graduate of Weston Jesuit, now the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Following a career as a corporate executive for a Fortune 500 company, he became a Director of two 501 C-3 charitable non-profits; he was Executive Director of Food for the Poor Inc., Deerfield Beach, Fl., and Development Director for My Brother’s Table Soup Kitchen, Lynn, MA. As he approached retirement, he began his own marketing business, retiring as a successful entrepreneur in his late fifties to teach and write. He has had four books previously published; Get Wisdom, Get Goodness, Get Real, and Get to the End. Michael Hickey is married to Theresa, a published poet and the editor of this new book. In their 50+ years of marriage they have raised four happy and "well adjusted" children into adulthood and they currently have five grandchildren.

• Section One: Themes of Catholic Social TeachingChapter OneChapter TwoChapter ThreeChapter FourChapter FiveChapter SixChapter SevenChapter EightSection Two: Catholic Social Teaching and the Social Letters of the Modern PopesChapter NineChapter TenChapter Eleven: Social Letters of Pope John XXIIIChapter Twelve: Social Letters of Vatican Council II, 1965Chapter Thirteen: Social Letters of Pope Paul VIChapter Fourteen: Social Letters of John Paul II, 1981-1987Chapter Fifteen: Social Letters of John Paul II, 1991-1995Chapter Sixteen: Social Letter of Pope Benedict XVI, 2009Chapter Seventeen: Social Letters of Pope Francis, 2013-2015Section Three: Distributive Justice and DistributismChapter Eighteen: Roots of Distributive JusticeChapter Nineteen: Distributive Justice in the Modern Papal Social Letters-The Foundational LettersChapter Twenty: Distributive Justice in the Social Letters of Pope John XXIII; and Vatican Council IIChapter Twenty-One: Distributive Justice in t

This book serves as a primer for CST, especially for those seeking clarification on the major themes of CST, distributive justice, and distributism. As previously mentioned, Hickey provides many thought-provoking proximal interconnections within CST themes as well as with CST and modern economics (especially in section one). On the whole, Hickey does a decent job setting the stage for “a new economy.”