A Question of the Argument of the Common Good in Catholic Social Teaching on Migration: The Limits of the Right to Migrate, 2008

This paper thus explores the notion of the common good as understood in the Catholic social teaching tradition and attempts to bring it into dialogue with the tradition’s understanding of migration, particularly the right to migrate. This task has the explicit end of achieving improved understanding of the limits of the right to migrate from a Catholic social teaching perspective. From this dialogue of two elements of Catholic social teaching—the common good and the right to migrate—new directions in Catholic social thought on migration emerge.