——after being criticized by more than 90 members of the university’s faculty for his “continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more..........——
I can only conclude that these professors are Marxists in sheep’s clothing, because they must understand the principle of subsidiarity, and that no one in this country is close to starvation.
I'm not even Catholic (my roots are in the American Restoration Movement), but I have preached sermons to my congregation in years past about how a lack of a doctrine of subsidiarity in government leads directly to government nanny-state-ism, and then into outright tyranny.
Dr. J. Budziszewski's ("bood-ja-shev-ski") fantastic book, "The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man" takes Aquinas' work on these and other aspects of just government and breaks them down, so that even I can understand them. It's a brisk read, and he explains every term he uses in simple language.
HIGHLY recommended.
Funny story: the old edition cover of this book had a painting of Adam and Eve, naked, being driven out of the Garden. My wife told me that the ladies of the church were horrified when I showed them the book from the pulpit, and then she put a white sticky label over their "naughty bits". The sticker is still there, years later :-)