Ordo Socialis
christlich, sozial, weltweit
Great Cross of Merits for Dr. h. c. Josef Thesing
In the name of the President of the German Federal Republic the Prime Minister of North-
Rhine-Westphalia, Dr. Rüttgers, has awarded on September 11, 2008 the Great Cross of
Merits of the Order of Merits of the Federal Republic of Germany to Dr. Josef Thesing,
member of the Board of our association.
Meeting of UNIAPAC at Cologne
A short presentation of the new concept of ORDO SOCIALIS has taken place during the international board meeting of UNIAPAC on 1st June, 2007, Cologne, Germany.
Reinhard Marx
“If Catholic Social Teaching shall contribute efficiently to the shaping of the global order, it must find worldwide spreading. I therefore support the work of Ordo socialis.”
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Munich
Lothar Roos:
”The state is “not allowed to make its own competences which restrict the human being in his freedom and responsibility. What the individual citizen or the smaller community respectively can achieve themselves, shall not be taken over by the state.” – With these words the Berlin Episcopal Conference remembers the “subsidiarity principle” which since the encyclica Quadragesimo Anno (No. 79) is known as the most important socio-political principle of the clerical social proclamation and simultaneously of the democratic constitutional state. “
Lothar Roos: Die Grundwerte der Demokratie und die Verantwortung des Christen, 1991, S. 8 der digitalen Version: https://www.ordosocialis.de/publikationen. (The whole text is not yet translatet in English)