What does Christ the King have to say about money? About your property, your work, your vote, your friendships, your phone? This course studies the Church’s answer to “every fundamental question of social significance” — anchored in the Gospels and the great social encyclicals: Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno, and Divini Redemptoris.

Students weigh liberalism, socialism, communism, and capitalism against the perennial teaching of the Church — and learn what Catholic Action actually asks of them. And new this year is a strand no other provider offers: the Social Virtues — nine lessons on friendship and cliques, truth and reputation, fraternal correction, anger, forgiveness, restitution, boundaries, and life online. Moral theology where teenagers actually live.

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The semester’s arc

The course moves in twelve units: from the Foundations (human dignity, man as a social creature, rights and duties), through the Family, Work, Poverty, Riches, and Property, into Social Justice and Charity, the Social Virtues, the Social Kingship of Christ and Authority, Liberty and Law (with eminent domain and capital punishment as case studies), and finally Culture, Patriotism, and a closing Synthesis — a case lab where students build a personal rule of social life. Five written tests and a comprehensive final, all graded by hand with feedback.