In this episode, Dr. Brian Boyd gives a lecture on the central destination of goods for the lecture series on Catholic Social Teachings, hosted by the St. Vincent de Paul Society at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Mishawaka. Dr. Boyd is a moral theologian whose interest in how personal virtue and communal flourishing are impacted by social structures has led him to focus on economic justice, with particular attention to wages and property rights along with the providential order of creation. Drawing on economics, history, and sociology, his work seeks to describe the situations we face, judge what is lacking from the perspective of integral human development and offer pathways towards action for justice. Dr. Boyd received his undergraduate, master's in theological studies, and his PhD. from the University of Notre Dame as well as a B.A. from Oxford University and has studied at Georgetown University and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. His talk in this episode will cover "God's plan for, and our responsibility to, the universal destination of goods.

The is the first of a five-part lecture series on Catholic Social Teaching (CST). In this episode Fr. Chris Lapp of St. Joseph Catholic Parish in Mishawaka, IN. provides a background on CST and its use as a tool of the Laity from a pastoral perspective. This lecture series was hosted by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul at St. Joseph Catholic Parish Mishawaka.

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