Why do They Continue to forget Subsidiarity

This appears to be a feel-good piece. A long-time associate director of Catholic Social Services in Kentucky ascends to the top post. Bill Jones enjoys the support of the local Bishop as well as his predecessor. Everybody seems happy. Except me. That's because buried in the story is this:

One of the things he will be communicating is what he calls one of the best kept secrets in America - Catholic social teaching.

He[Bill Jones] listed the seven points that should guide the church in any planning or teaching:

The sanctity of all life.

Preferential options for the poor.

The call of every human being to participate in that community.

The right to fair and meaningful work and a just wage.

Everybody has responsibilities to their community.

Solidarity - wherever we live, whatever country or society, we are each other's brothers and sisters.

Stewardship for God's creation.

"Putting all those things together should guide all of the decisions we make as Christians, as business people, as parents, as teachers," he said.

Why does a proponent of Catholic Social Teaching once again forget a crucial principle of this teaching? Why can't we all agree that subsidiarity belongs there?

Look what a simple search for CST reveals:

FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHINGS

Human Dignity

* " The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name"
Pope John Paul II
Christmas Message, 25 December 1978

* "The dignity of the person is manifested in all its radiance when the person's origin and destiny are considered: created by God in his image and likeness as well as redeemed by the most precious blood of Christ, the person is called to be a child in the Son and a living temple of the Spirit, destined for the eternal life of blessed communion with God. For this reason every violation of the personal dignity of the human being cries out in vengeance to God and is an offense against the Creator of the individual."
Pope John Paul II
Christifideles Laici

* "By his incarnation the Son of God has united himself in some fashion with every human being. This saving event reveals to humanity not only the boundless love of God who "so loved the world that he gave his only Son" (Jn 3:16), but also the incomparable value of every human person."
Pope John Paul II
Gospel of Life

Common Good

* "The common good comprises the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily" (Gaudium et Spes 26 1).

* The common good consists of three essential elements: respect for and promotion of the fundamental rights of the person; prosperity, or the development of the spiritual and temporal goods of society; the peace and security of the group and of its members.

* "The dignity of the human person requires the pursuit of the common good. Everyone should be concerned to create and support institutions that improve the conditions of human life."
Catechism of the Catholic Church

Subsidiarity

* "The "principle of subsidiarity" must be respected: "A community of a higher order should not interfere with the life of a community of a lower order, taking over its functions." In case of need it should, rather, support the smaller community and help to coordinate its activity with activities in the rest of society for the sake of the common good."
Pope John Paul II
Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum

* The rights of the family are not simply the sum total of the rights of the person, since the family is much more than the sum of its individual members. Whenever the family is self-sufficient, it should be left to act on its own; an excessive intrusiveness on the part of the State would prove detrimental and would constitute an open violation of the rights of the family. Only in those situations where the family is not really self-sufficient does the State have the authority and duty to intervene."
Pope John Paul II
Letter to Families

Solidarity

* "Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all."
Pope John Paul II
On Social Concerns

Is it so difficult to acknowledge this? I don't understand it! When we ignore any of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching, we distort that teaching. That means we distort Christ's word to those of us that have a stake in society. CST provides the founding principles of a just social order. We ignore it at our peril!

Subsidiarity ensures that communities of a lower order have the independence they require to exercise the local control they're best suited for. It also ensures them the support from higher orders of communities should they require it. Without this principle, the regretable political tendency to centralize power and control in a federal level og government upends this sensible order of authority. The result is decisions by the postal service in Washington, D.C. to redistribute mail from one side of Rockland County, NY to another through a distribution center on the other side of the Tappan Zee Bridge! Other decisions become even more of a burden for the local community!

Witness to all of Catholic Social Teaching! Please!