Introduction : understanding Catholic social teaching in the light of economic reasoning / Philip Booth -- Rethinking welfare, reviving charity : a Catholic alternative / Robert A. Sirico -- Aid, governance and development / Philip Booth -- The unanswered questions of the just wage / Thomas E. Woods, Jr. -- Taxation and the size of the state / Philip Booth -- Free markets and the culture of consumption / Andrew Yuengert -- Business and the common good / Robert G. Kennedy -- The entrepreneur in the life of the church and society / Anthony Percy -- Education and the Catholic Church in England and Wales / Dennis O'Keeffe -- Subsidiarity and solidarity / Denis O'Brien -- Catholicism and the case for limited government / Samuel Gregg -- Appendix. Major church documents to which the authors refer.