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A Sociotheological Approach to Catholic Social TeachingCatholic Social Teaching, Corruption, the World Health Organization’s Law Enforcement Power, and COVID-19

A Sociotheological Approach to Catholic Social Teaching: Catholic Social Teaching, Corruption,... [Using Catholic social teaching on the role of public authority to protect the common good and drawing from secondary literature as the main source of textual data, this chapter investigates the law enforcement capacity of the WHO as the primary global network of public health especially during COVID-19 to monitor and sanction corruption using CST’s doctrine on the role of public authority to protect the common good. The WHO may have the internal mechanism to check corruption within the agency, but it has no independent law enforcement power and structure to fully enforce its health rules around the globe and go after powerful corrupt state and non-state, as well as public and private individuals and organizations or agencies. The plurality of corruption rules and public health organizations also weakened the WHO’s anti-corruption campaign during COVID-19...] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Sociotheological Approach to Catholic Social TeachingCatholic Social Teaching, Corruption, the World Health Organization’s Law Enforcement Power, and COVID-19

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Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
ISBN
978-981-19-7074-0
Pages
145 –157
DOI
10.1007/978-981-19-7075-7_8
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Using Catholic social teaching on the role of public authority to protect the common good and drawing from secondary literature as the main source of textual data, this chapter investigates the law enforcement capacity of the WHO as the primary global network of public health especially during COVID-19 to monitor and sanction corruption using CST’s doctrine on the role of public authority to protect the common good. The WHO may have the internal mechanism to check corruption within the agency, but it has no independent law enforcement power and structure to fully enforce its health rules around the globe and go after powerful corrupt state and non-state, as well as public and private individuals and organizations or agencies. The plurality of corruption rules and public health organizations also weakened the WHO’s anti-corruption campaign during COVID-19...]

Published: Nov 1, 2022

Keywords: Catholic social teaching; Corruption; Law Enforcement; World Health Organization; Legal Pluralism

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