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Catholic Social Teaching and Poverty The Competence to See and the Courage to Act

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Catholic Social Teaching and Poverty. The Competence to See and the Courage to Act. Hopefully, reactions…. What from last class stuck out to you? What was your reaction to it? How do we respond? What is the solution to this?. Justice. What is your definition of justice?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Catholic Social Teaching and

PovertyThe Competence to See

and the Courage to Act

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What from last class stuck out to you? What was your reaction to it?

How do we respond? What is the solution to this?

Hopefully, reactions…

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What is your definition of justice?

Justice

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The Church teaches that Justice is rooted in Scripture◦ Is 1:15 “Make Justice your aim.”◦ Micah 6:8 “You have been told, O man, what is

good and what the LORD requires of you: Only to do the right, and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.”

◦ LK 10:34 Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbor to the robbers’ victim?” He answered, “The one who treated him with mercy.”

Justice and the Church

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Not about straight correlations About making things RIGHT We need to correct our relationship with:

◦ God◦ Each other◦ Creation

Justice is…

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Brings together all people, place, events, and movements following the call of the Scriptures

The lived experience of this call

Dorothy Day

Catholic Social Tradition

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Reflection on what it means to live JUST lives

Patristic and Classical◦ Aquinas◦ Augustine

Ongoing Theological Inquiry◦ Liberation Theology◦ Eco-theology

Catholic Social Thought

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Official teachings of the Magisterium

Papal Encyclicals◦ Rerum Novarum – Caritas in

Veritate Bishops Conferences

Catholic Social Teaching

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Offers Wisdom about building a just society

Able to offer an unchanging light to the new problems that we are confronted with

Social Teaching of the Church

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The Scriptures make social demands on us◦ Matthew 25◦ Prophets◦ The Law is for Love

Social Dimension of the Scriptures

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Encyclical Letter of John XXIII Four Major Sections:

◦ Individual and Humankind◦ Individual and State◦ States and the Rights and Duties of Individuals◦ Community amongst States

This encyclical outlines a clear social teaching of the Church founded on Justice and Equality

Pacem en Terris

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“Man has a right to live.” “Right to bodily integrity.” “Right to be looked after in ill-health.”

Pacem en Terris (11)

Right to worship God according to one’s conscience (14)

Basic Human Rights

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We have a right to exercise personal initiative in the work we do (18).

Wages are determined with the precepts of justice (20).

Right to own private property is a social obligation (22).

We have to meet these criteria if we are to live in a just society

Economic Rights

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The existence of rights are necessarily tied to duties

We have an obligation to protect our rights, and the rights of others

Rights can only function when exercises them with duty

Rights vs. Duties

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Dignity of the Human Person Community and the Common Good Rights and Responsibilities Option for the Poor Dignity of Work Solidarity Care for Creation

Values and Principles

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These are the basis for all of CST

These principles will never change, though may be applicable in any situation

Everything in CST is centered on the Dignity of the Human Person

Principles

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Foundation of CST Humans are created in the Image of God All human life, from conception to natural death

is sacred.

Gen 1:26 Then God said: “Let us make man in our image and after our likeness.”

Eph 4:23-24 And be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self, created in God’s way in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Human Dignity

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Humans are social beings Perfect model is God’s Trinitarian (Relational)

Nature We realize our own humanity in relationship

with others

Lv 19:9-15 “These things you shall leave for the poor and alien. I, the LORD, am your God.

Jn 13:34 “I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.”

Community and the Common Good

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“With great power comes great responsibility”

We must fulfill basic rights for human dignity to be recognized

Rights are not the ends we seek; we have to ensure that others can exercise theirs as well

Am 5:21-24 “Then let justice surge like water, and goodness like an unfailing stream”

Mt 23:11 “The greatest among you must be your servant”

Rights and Responsibilities

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Every person, regardless of status is welcome in Christ

We stand with the poor and afflicted because only from there can we appeal as Jesus did for the conversion and deliverance of all.

Constitutions of the Congregation of Holy Cross, 13 Ps 41:1-3 “Happy those concerned with the

poor and the lowly” Lk 4:16-30 “It was to none of these that

Elijah was sent, but only to a widow”

Option for the Poor

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Our human vocation is to participate in the creative work of God

This necessarily means that we are made to work; work is a good thing

Work must be dignifying Every person has a right to fair, meaningful,

decent work that respects their dignity

Dignity of Work

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As humans, we are connected to all other human beings

There is a global dimension to loving our neighbor We come not just as servants, but as their

neighbors, to be with them and of them. Constitutions of the Congregation of Holy Cross, 13

Is 32:16 “Right will dwell in the desert and justice abide in the orchard”

Mt 25:31-46 “Amen, I say to you, what you did for the one of these least ones, you did for me”

Solidarity

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All creation is a gift from God We are not masters of creation; we are the

stewards of creation Responsible to protect it

Gen 2:15 “The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate it and care for it”

Mt 6:25 “Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing”

Care for God’s Creation

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Every economic decision has a moral consequence

Caritas in Veritate We can tell a lot about people based on

their economic choices

Economics

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Budget

GasCableGroceriesFriday NightsCharityElectronicsLoansFamily WeddingInsurance

What can we tell about this person?

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Our choices reflect what we believe in If we believe in Christ, we must act like it

◦ We are not taking sides against “sinful enemies” Constitutions of the Congregation of Holy Cross, 13

◦ As Christians, we are to serve: The Oppressed

Relieving their suffering The Oppressor

Conversion of heart

How CST effects our lives

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CST is not just our mind, or heart, or soul isolated from one another

It is all three integrated Ought to be a transformative experience Andre House Experience

Experience of CST

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“The mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart.”

- Blessed Basil Moreau, C.S.C.

“For the Kingdom to come in this world, disciples must have the competence to see, and the courage to act.”

-Constitution 2: Mission

Holy Cross Spirituality

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Break into Small Groups