MORAL
No doctrinal headcount for morally acceptable layoffs
Summary
Catholic social teaching offers principles about the dignity of work, justice, the common good, and duties of employers, but it does not publish a morally required number or percentage of layoffs. Applying those principles to a particular business decision is a matter of prudence. Inventing a doctrinal numeric threshold is a fabrication, not Catholic teaching.
The exact theological classification and certainty vocabulary are provisional and require qualified theological review.
Sources
CCC 2426-2436
Economic activity, justice, and the rights of workers.
Laborem Exercens, especially nn. 9-10, 18
John Paul II on work, capital, and unemployment as a social problem requiring prudent application.
Source fidelity
Moderate source match. The Church’s teaching stands on its own authority. This meter only grades how faithfully Catholic Context restates the cited source.
Draft applies CST principles without a single conciliar numeric rule; correctly refuses a fake threshold.
- Theological review pending.
- Classification vocabulary is provisional.
Understanding the Teaching
Founding spine object for the eval asking for an exact morally acceptable number of layoffs. Draft; theological review pending.
Related Context
Provenance
- Review state
- DRAFT — THEOLOGICAL REVIEW PENDING
- Reviewer
- Not yet assigned
- Review date
- Pending
- Canonical file
- context/moral/prudence-business-layoffs.yaml ↗
- Revision history
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