Catholic Social Teaching

Video & podcast: AI in light of Magnifica Humanitas

This month’s ACI webinar on Wednesday 10 June 2026 will focus on Pope Leo’s new encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.

June 24, 2026

Book: History and Teaching of Catholic Social Doctrine

The former Fr Robert Prevost OSA, now Pope Leo XIV, wrote the preface for a new book “The Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church: History and Teaching” by his Augustinian colleague, Fr John Lydon OSA.

April 4, 2026

Popular movements combat exclusion: Leo

Addressing participants at the World Meetint of Popular Movements in Rome, Pope Leo called for action to fight exclusion and marginalisation.

October 25, 2025

Growing demand for Church’s social doctrine: Leo

Addressing a conference organised by the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation, Pope Leo XIV said that there is a growing demand for the Church’s social doctrine that needs to be met.

May 18, 2025

See judge act as a tool of discernment

Delivering the 2024 Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Lecture on 11 April 2024, Apostolic Nuncio to the USA, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, spoke of the importance of the see-judge-method as a tool of ecclesial discernment.

April 13, 2024

Pope Francis hails US community organisers

When Pope Francis told a group of U.S. community organizers that their work was “atomic,” Jorge Montiel said, “I thought, ‘Oh, you mean we blow things up?'”

September 18, 2023

Sydney bishop explains the see-judge-act

In this podcast from the Sydney Archdiocese Re Search program Andy Martin talks to Auxiliary Bishop Danny Meagher about Catholic Social Teaching including the See Judge Act.

September 7, 2023

Video: Catholic social justice and the Labor Party 1900-1940

At our June ACI webinar, Emeritus Professor James Franklin spoke on “Catholic social justice and the Labor Party 1900-1940” at our next ACI webinar on Tuesday 13 June.

June 24, 2023

Webinar: Cathonomics: Creating a more just economy

Irish-born American economist, Tony Annett, will present the next ACI webinar on Saturday 13 April addressing the theme “Cathonomics: How Catholic tradition can create a more just economy,” the title of his recent book.

April 20, 2023

Pope’s Pacem in Terris appeal

Recalling the 60th anniversary of St Pope John XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in Terris this month, Pope Francis appealed to world leaders to read or re-read the 1963 encyclical.

April 19, 2023

Pope Francis at 10

St Ambrose’s University at Davenport, Iowa, USA hosted a major conference in March to mark the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ pontificate.

March 29, 2023

Cardijn’s Hour of the Working Class

Join us on 11 February for the first ACI webinar of the year with US Catholic Social Teaching specialist, John Médaille.

February 8, 2023

Cardijn Lecture 2022 with Cardinal Michael Czerny

The church’s current social teaching is profoundly rooted in the Second Vatican Council and oriented to the urgent needs of today said Cardinal Michael Czerny in an annual lecture for the Australian Cardijn Institute on 15 November.

November 30, 2022

Siblings All: A detailed guide to Fratelli tutti: Cardinal Czerny

In a heads up for his Cardijn Lecture on Monday 14 November, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development prefect, Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ, has explained his new book, Siblings All, co-authored with Fr Christian Barone.

November 11, 2022

Cardijn Lecture with Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ

Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ, prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, will deliver the 2022 Cardijn Lecture, addressing the theme “Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis.”

November 8, 2022

Cardinal Michael Czerny: Siblings All, Sign of the Times

Join the Cardijn Lecture 2022 on 14 November.

November 3, 2022

Vatican dicastery restructures on see-judge-act line

The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development made the announcement on 14 September 2022.

September 19, 2022

ACI AGM: Sarah Prenger: The YCW’s missionary dimension

Originally from Germany, Sarah is the outgoing president of the International YCW, now completing a Master’s in Catholic Social Teaching.

August 27, 2022

Business schools have a cooperative blindspot

Tranby is an Indigenous adult education school in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Glebe. Founded in 1957, its graduates include Eddie Mabo, who went on to win the most significant land rights legal battle in Australian history.

July 17, 2022