Catholic social teaching and the peripheries: the case for addressing prostitution

Catholic social teaching (CST) has shown little interest in structural and forces that impact negatively on the dignity flourishing of women. Such inattention diminishes CST's credibility neglects its liberative potential. This article examines an area violence against women, reality prostitution, to illuminate imperative expand normative CST address specific experiences Given inadequacy Catechism's treatment prostitution as personal moral failing, a reading which fails understand how cultural legislative structures bear down women's freedom agency, task for emerges. When principles are brought into dialogue with empirical attention experience tradition stands solidarity those who inhabit existential periphery. The argues perspectives should nudge Church towards proposing abolitionist ethic relation prostitution.