The Department for Social Justice works for the common good, promotes marriage and family life, offers support for vulnerable and marginalised people and works to uphold the dignity of human life from conception to natural death.
The calls on tax revenues to finance welfare would be diminished if people received a just wage as is called for in Catholic social teaching.
The Second Vatican Council of the early 1960s, which renewed the working of the Catholic Church, calls upon people to work together for the 'common good'.
All individuals, families, civil society organisations and corporations, as well as the state, are responsible for promoting the common good and solidarity.
A Catholic understanding of taxation requires a Catholic understanding of the role of the state.
In this chapter we are concerned with the principles and applications of taxation within Scripture and not the development of a systematic theology.
