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This 21 page paper addresses the end question of whether a bridge can be erected between multinational corporations and solidarity according to Catholic Social Teaching. The writer first explores what a corporation is and the nature of the corporation as a corporate person. The major section of the paper explains and discuses Catholic social teaching, citing from many Popes, Bishops and other documents. The last section addresses the question of solidarity and the multinational corporation. Bibliography lists 30 sources.
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other than the United States Supreme Court, when, in 1886, the Court ruled "a private corporation is a person and entitled to the legal rights and protections the Constitutions
affords to any person" (Ratcliffe, 2005). Ratcliffe (2005) reported "the doctrine of corporate personhood, which subsequently became a cornerstone of corporate law, was introduced into this 1886 decision without argument."
The case was Santa Clara County V. Southern Pac. R. Co, filed on May 10, 1886 (Ratcliffe, 2005). This issue was money owed by the railroad to the county
assessors office (Ratcliffe, 2005). The railroad argued that the state had included properties, specifically fences, in the assessment of taxes that should not have been included (Ratcliffe, 2005). Basically, the
court said the state provide the same protections to a corporation as it would to an individual person (Ratcliffe, 2005). Over the next century, the corporation grew to
its present dominance in the society and, indeed, in the world (Big Picture Media Corporation, 2005). It created wealth for the few and gave jobs to the many (Big Picture
Media Corporation, 2005). Is the corporation amoral, self-centered, unethical, and self-serving? These are certainly some of the many personality characteristics applied to the corporation. We know that some multinational
corporations are larger and have far more fiscal resources than some countries. We also know that multinational corporations can easily take over a small country and have significant influence in
all countries. Susan Stabile (2005), who is a Professor of Law at St. Johns University School of Law, points out that "Some see the world of business and the
world of God as two separate spheres." Catholicism, however, does not separate the Godly and worldly spheres (Stabile, 2005). This author explains: Catholicism is an incarnational faith that sees
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