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Caritas in Veritate

Opening our minds to love,

Opening our love to truth


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What is it?

THEME

In Christ, charity in truth becomes the Face ofHis Person, a vocation for us to love our

brothers and sisters in the truth of his plan

Integral Human Development


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Integral human development implies the

advance towards the true good of every

individual, community and society, in every

single dimension of human life: social,

economic, political, intellectual, spiritual

and religious. MESSAGE FOR THE FEAST OF DEEPAVALI 20093, , Pontifical Council


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Development of the whole man and of all

men" (PP, 42, Paul VI)

From less human conditions to thosewhich are more human" (PP, 20, Paul VI).

Integral human development presupposes

the responsible freedom of the individualand of peoples" (Caritas, 17).


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Background:

Populorum Progressio

Affirms the right of poor nations to fullhuman development. Decries economic

structures promoting inequality. Calls for

new international organizations and

agreements


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Background:

Populorum Progressio

Poor nations --> current economic crisis

Full human development --> caritas

Structures of inequality --> sin, truth New international organizations -->

globalization based on caritas in veritate

That is, love in the truth that we are allinterdependent


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Basic Catholic Social Teaching

CATHOLICISMS

BEST

KEPT

SECRET


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Catholic?

Catholic, addressed to all people

Unique insight might contribute to the growth

of humanity

Best Kept Secret


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1891Rerum Novarum (On New Things)

Addressed to the new world of capitalism andindustrialization

Rejects both laissez faire capitalism and Marxistcommunism

Both treat the human person as object

Defends the right of private property

But a right with limits


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Vatican II: Gaudium et Spes (Joy & Hope)

Reconfigures Churchs commitment to the poor

Influenced by Council of Medillin

Conference of Latin American Bishops

Focus on poverty in Latin American and Churchs

role

Revisioned the relationship of the Church to theLatin American people


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Option for the Poor

Council of Medellin

Always choose those options which favor the

poor

Rooted in the Bible:

Concern for justice

Sermon on the Mount


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Natural Law Theory

Gods plan for the world is accessible to humanreason

Human beings must come to know this planand live their lives according to it

Moral law is the foundation of positive/sociallaw

An unjust law is no law at all


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Core Ideas

Three Ideas

Three ideas guide CST

The Common Good Subsidiarity

Solidarity


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Core Ideas: Common Good

The whole network of social conditions

[that] enable human individuals to flourish

and live a fully, genuinely human life,

otherwise described as integral human

development

All are responsible for all, collectively, at

the level of society or nation, not only as

individuals


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Core Ideas: Common Good

Network

Enabling

Individuals and Groups Flourish and live fully and genuinely human

life

Responsibility Yes, I am my brothers and sisters keeper


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Core Ideas: Subsidiarity

Just as it is gravely wrong to take from

individuals what they can accomplish by

their own initiative and industry and give it

to the community, so also it is an injustice

and at the same time a grave evil and

disturbance of right order to assign to

greater or higher association what lesser andsubordinate organizations can do


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Core Ideas: Subsidiarity

Empowers

Maintains autonomy

Freedom Dignity


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Core Ideas: Solidarity

The fact that men and women in various parts of

the world feel personally affected by the injustices

and violations of human rights committed in

distance countries, countries which perhaps theywill never visit, is a further sign of a reality

transformed into awareness, thus acquiring a

moral connotation.


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Core Ideas: Solidarity

We are aware

We are affected

It is a reality Human communion and community

Working together and for each other to end

injustice


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Core Ideas

Personalism

Centrality of the person for philosophicalthought

The person is the center of social ethics

Human dignity as the core of personalism

Rights Voice

Development


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Summary

Catholic Social Teaching: a secret but a tradition

Steeped in Natural Law

Three Principles: Common Good, Subsidiarity,

Solidarity

Personalism

Structural Sin

Rejects both free-market capitalism and state-runcommunism

Option for the poor


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Summary

Populorum Progression: 1967

Sollicitudo Rei Socialis:

Caritas in Veritate: Integral Human development across the

globe


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Recap

Caritas in Veritate: truth in love

Recalls the global vision of Populorum

Progressio

Three Ideas of Catholic Social Teaching

Common Good, Subsidiarity, Solidarity

Option for the poor



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Caritas in Veritate: Content

Gods plan for us is to love our sisters and

brothers

Knowing the plan is Truth

Natural Law

Knowledge and Praxis


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Everything is shaped by love

Everything is directed toward love (2)


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A rejection of cultural relativism and ethical

subjectivism

90% of Americans accept, at least in word,

some form of relativism


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To love is to desire the persons good and

to take steps to secure it

Defines our common good

Cannot fail to assume the whole humanfamily as a way to shape the earthly city

(7)


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The risk for our time is that the de facto

interdependence of people and nations is

not matched by ethical interaction of

conscience and minds that would give riseto truly human development. Only in

charity, illumined by the light of reason and

faith, is it possible to pursue developmentgoals that possess a more humane and

humanizing value (9)


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Progress is a vocation

In the design of God, every man is calledupon to develop and fulfill himself, for

every life is a vocation (16, quot. PP)


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VISION

Goal of rescuing peoples, first and

foremost, from hunger, deprivation,

endemic diseases and illiteracy. From the

economic point of view, this meant their

active participation on equal terms in

economic process


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From the social point of view it meant their

evolution into educated societies marked

by solidarity.


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From the political point of view it mean the

consolidation of democratic regimes

capable of ensuring freedom and peace.

(21)


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Primary capital to be safeguarded and

valued is man, the human person in his or

her integrity (25)

Profit has a role, but a limited role (21)

States ability to safeguard the poor has been

compromised by global economy

Two-edge sword of outsourcing


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Charity in truth combats the superdevelopment

in economics, technology, and practical atheism

Integral human development fosters theinteraction of the different levels of knowledge in

order to promote the authentic development of

peoples (30)

Moral evaluation and scientific research go hand in

hand (31)


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Human being is made for gift:

transcendent dimension

Presumption of Original Sin:

Modern man sees himself as the sole

author of himself, his life, and society (34)

Individualism of modernity


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The economy has been included for some

time in the list of areas where the effects

of sin are most evident (34)


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Market, in a climate of mutual trust,

permits encounters between persons

While the market is subject to

commutative justice (giving and receiving

between parties in a transaction) the

Church emphasizes that it is subject to

distributive and social justice (35)


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The logic of gift must find a place in market

relations

Consider Bobs Red Mill foods

Without gratuitousness there is no justice.

Markets must permit free operation of

enterprises in conditions of equal opportunity Alongside profit, we allow mutualist enterprises and

pursuit of social ends


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Profound new way of understanding

business enterprises (40)

Stakeholders: any one with a stake in the

success of the company Not just stockholders


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Globalization is not a fatalistic process of

anonymous impersonal forces

Humanity is becoming increasingly

interconnected as a cultural event with

causes and effects (42)

Should offer benefits

Not victims but protagonists


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Human solidarity imposes duties

Reality sees an acclimation for rights non-essential in nature while elementary and

basic rights are being unacknowledged

and violated

A right to excess in advanced societies linked

to lack of food and water in poorer societies


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Economy needs ethics to function

correctly (45)

Man is created in the image of God

The economy is a human activity

Not an anonymous process outside our

control


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Development programmes must be based

on the centrality of the human person as

the subject primarily responsible for

development (47)


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Development must go hand in hand with a

relationship to the environment (48)

When viewed as the result of pure chance,

our sense of responsibility wanes

Nature expresses a design of love and

truth Requires solidarity with developing countries


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The way humanity treats the environmentinfluences the way it treats itself and viceversa

The decisive issue of the overall moraltenor of society (51)

Thomas Aquinas

St. Francis of Assissi


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Theme of development can be identified

with the inclusion in relation of all

individuals and peoples within the one

community of the human family, built insolidarity on the basis of fundamental

values of justice and peace (54)


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As a spiritual being, human beings are

defined through interpersonal relations

Rejects modern individualism

The development of peoples requires the

recognition that the human race is a single

family (53)


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The unity of the human race in Christian

revelation relies on a metaphysical

interpretation of the human as relational

(55)

But to offer this contribution there must be

a place for God in the public realm Reason and faith purify each other (56)

S l ti t t


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Solutions to current

economic crisisDevelopment aid for poor countries

creates wealth for all (60)

Greater solidarity means greater access to

education (61)An ability to address migration (62)

Full employment: right to work (63)

Labour unions (64) Finance must be directed toward wealth

creation and development (65)


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Globalization

Consumer has specific social

responsibility

Positive growth: consumers and their

associations (66) Cooperative purchasing

Requires Market transparency


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Globalization

A reform of the United Nations with real

teeth

To protect and give voice to poorer nations in

effective decision-making

Urgent need for a world political authority


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Technology

Challenge of development is linked to

technological progress (69)

A profound human reality

But must remember the hegemony of thespirit over matter

When efficiency and utility are the sole

criterion of truth then development isdenied (70)


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Technology

Entranced by an exclusive reliance on

technology, reason without faith is doomed

to flounder in an illusion of its own

omnipotence. Faith without reason risksbeing cut off from everyday life. (74)


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Technology

The social question has become a

radically anthropological question:

How is life conceived?

How is it manipulated as bio-technology

places human life increasingly under

mans control (75)

Is man the product of his own labor or

does he depend on God? (74)


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Technology

There cannot be holistic development and

universal common good unless peoples

spiritual and moral welfare is taken into

account, considered in their entirety asbody and soul (76)

Resurrection of the body


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Conclusion

Christian humanism:

Enkindles charity

Takes lead from truth

Both are lasting gifts from God

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