Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Catholic Social Doctrine and Political Philosophy -- Part 1: The Human Person,the Political Community, and the Common Good -- I. The Dignity of the Human Person, Human Rights, and Natural Law -- 2. The Meaning of the Common Good -- 3. Seeking the Common Good through Virtue and Grace -- 4. Seeking the Common Good through Justice and Social Justice -- 5. Seeking the Common Good through Law and Public Policy: Same-Sex Marriage, the Life Questions,and Biotechnology -- Part 2: Civil Society and the Common Good: Three Mediating Institutions -- 6. Civil Society and the Church -- 7. Civil Society, the Family, and the Principle of Subsidiarity -- 8. Civil Society, the Catholic University, and Liberal Education -- Part 3: Private Property and the Universal Destination of Goods -- 9. The Economy, Work, Poverty,and Immigration -- 10. Safeguarding and Sustaining the Environment -- Part 4: The International Community and Justice -- 11. The International Community -- 12. Just-War Principles -- Conclusion: The Tension between Catholic Social Doctrine and the Proponents of Religion as a Private Affair -- Appendix: Pope Benedict XVI's Caritas in veritate -- Bibliography -- Index.