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Catholic Social TeachingA Key to Catholic Identity
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The Problem
Far too many Catholics are unfamiliar with the basiccontent of Catholic social teaching. Morefundamentally, many Catholics do not adequatelyunderstand that the social mission of the Church isan essential part of Catholic faith.
This poses a serious challenge for all Catholics, sinceit weakens our capacity to be a Church that is true tothe demands of the Gospel. We need to do more toshare the social mission and message of our Church.
Sharing Catholic Social Teaching: Challenges and Directions
U.S. Bishops, 1998
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A Key to Catholic Identity
The central message is simple: our faith is
profoundly social. We cannot be called
truly Catholic unless we hear and heedthe Church's call to serve those in need and
work for justice
and peace.
Comm unit ies o f Sal t and Light , U.S. Bish ops , 1993
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Vatican IIs Ecclesiology
The Church is a sign and a safeguardof the dignity of the human person.
A religious organization whosepurpose it is to help bring about thereign of God in history.
The social mission is constitutivenot extra-curricular or optional.
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Justice in the World, 1971 Synod
Action on behalf of justice andparticipation in the transformation of theworld fully appear to us as a constitutive
dimension of the preaching of the Gospel,or, in other words, of the Church's missionfor the redemption of the human race andits liberation from every oppressive
situation.
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Constitutive Elements of Church
Scripture hearing the Good News Sacraments worship, prayer life, etc.
Social Mission action for social justice
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Catholic Social TeachingRooted in the Bible
Continually developed in Catholic SocialTeaching
-- See, judge, act
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Biblical themes of justice God is active in human history
Creation
Covenant relationship
Community
Anawim -- "the widows, orphans and aliens
The example of Jesusreign of God, healing
In biblical faith, the doing of justiceis the primary expectation of Yahweh.
Walter Brueggeman
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Community,
State of Blessing
Become
Owners
Forget the
Poor
Forget
Yahweh
Create
Other Gods
Self
Destruction
Prophets:
The Poor
Kill the
Prophets
Cry out for
Deliverance
Restoration
Cycle of Baal
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Vatican II
This split between the faith which many
profess and their daily lives deserves to be
counted among the more serious errors of
our age.
Long since, the Prophets of the Old
Testament fought vehemently against this
scandal and even more so did Jesus Christ
Himself in the New Testament threaten it with
grave punishments.
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1891 Rerum Novarum Leo XIII
1931 Quadragesimo Anno Pius XI
1961 Mother and Teacher John XXIII
1963 Peace on Earth John XXIII
1965 Church in the Modern World Vatican II1967 The Development of Peoples Paul VI
1971 A Call to Action Paul VI
1971 Justice in the World Synod of Bishops
1979 Redeemer of Humanity John Paul II
1981 On Human Work John Paul II1988 On Social Concern John Paul II
1991 The One Hundredth Year John Paul II
1995 The Gospel of Life John Paul II
Modern Catholic Social TeachingModern Catholic Social Teaching
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Individual Individual
Commutative (Contractual)
Society
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Major Themes from Catholic Social Teaching
1. Human dignity
2. Community
3. Rights and duties
4. Option for the poor
5. Participation6. Economic Justice
7. Stewardship of Creation
8. Solidarity9. Role of Government
10. Promotion of Peace
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Wheel of Social Justice
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1. Human dignity
The person is sacred, made in the image of
God.
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3. Rights and duties
Civil/political
Economic/social
Every person has a right to the basic
material necessities that are required to
live a decent life.
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4. Option for the Poor
Remember the widows, orphans, and
aliens.
A necessary element of the common
good
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5. Participation
All people have a right to
a minimum level of participation
in the economic, political, and
cultural life of society.
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6. Economic Justice The economy must serve people, not the other way
around. People are more important than things;labor is more important than capital.
All workers have a right to productive work, todecent wages, to safe working conditions; and theyhave a right to organize and join unions.
People have a right to economic initiative and
private property, but these rights have limits. Noone is allowedto amass excessive wealth when others lack thebasic necessities of life.
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7. Stewardship of Creation
The goods of the earth are gifts.
We hold them in trust, as stewards.
God destined the earth and all it contains for all people and nationsso that all created things would be shared fairly by all humankind
under the guidance of justice tempered by charity.
On the Development of Peoples
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8. The Virtue of Solidarity
It is a firm and persevering
determination to commit oneself
to the common good; that is tosay, to the good of all ...because
we are all really responsible for
all.
Pope John Paul II, On Social Concern,1987
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9. Role of Government
The state has a positive moral function.
It is an instrument to promote human
dignity, protect human rights, and build
the common good
Subsidiarity
As small as possible
As big as necessary
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10. Promotion of Peace
Peace is not just the absence of war
If you want peace, work for justice.
Pope Paul VI, 1972, World Day of Peace Message
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Major Themes from Catholic Social Teaching
1. Human dignity2. Community
3. Rights and duties
4. Option for the poor
5. Participation
6. Economic Justice
7. Stewardship of Creation
8. Solidarity9. Role of Government
10. Promotion of Peace
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Christian Social Analysis
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PCP II Art 20 #2
Action in behalf of justice is to bepursued as a sign of Christian
witnessing to Christ and Histeachings.
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PCP II decree #134
. the well to do should be
willing to tilt the center ofgravity of the entire
community in favor of the
needy.
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Pope Paul VI
Octogesima Adveniens It is up to Christian
communities to analyze with
objectivity the situationwhich isproper to their own country, toshed on it the light of theGospels unalterable words
and to draw principles ofreflection, norms of judgment,and directives of actions
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analyze with ob ject iv i ty the
s i tuat ion?
draw p r incip les of ref lect ion,
norm s of judgment , and
direct ives of act ions?
How will we
do thosethings?
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Christian Social Analysis
a.k.a PASTORAL SPIRAL
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What is it?
Is a thorough processof ident i fy ing
an event or experience or issue that
concerns a community, analyzing it and
understanding it thoroughly especially
with regard to its causes and finally
planning, implement ing, andevaluat ingan appropriate Christ ian
response.
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How was it developed?
1800s, Cardinal Joseph Cardijn, used aprocess called the See-Judge-Actframework.
many Christian communities have usedit in dealing with social issues
taken on many different forms such as
Action-Reflection-Action (ARA) used by some Basic Christian
Communities in the Philippines.
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How was it developed?
Pastoral Cycle, seeing the situation; reflection in faith; and action
planning
Pastoral Spiral
Bishops Institute for Social Action (BISA),
Office of Human Development (OHD)
Federation of Asian BishopsConferences (FABC).
an expanded and more dynamic versionof the Pastoral Cycle.
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The process
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Experience
This stage is concerned with seeingor scrutinizing the signs of thetimes.
It involves more than an academicanalysis of the situation and
necessitates an immersion-exposure process of knowing thereality.
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Experience
It answers the following questions:
What did I
See Hear
Smell
Taste Feel
What do these observations have to do
with my life?
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Social analysis
A scientific observation of the economic
social, political, cultural, and religious
situation of any given context. It will lead to a more systematic
knowledge of the reality
It allows us to look for the ROOTCAUSEof the problem by asking WHY.
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Social analysis
Searching for the structural causes
Understanding how the wholeof societyworks
Understanding how a smallproblem insociety can be part of the wholeproblemin society
Understanding how each smallstrugglefor justice can be part of the wholestruggle for justice in our society.
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Social analysis
The community questions the
following:
Economic structuresPolitical structures
Social structures
Cultural structures
Religious structures
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Social analysis
Economic structures
Who is growing richer from thissituation?
How do they become rich?
Who is growing poorer from thissituation?
What are people doing to changeit?
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Social analysis
Political structures
Who is gaining power from thissituation?
How do they gain power?
Who is losing power from thissituation?
What are the people doingabout this situation?
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Social analysis
Social structures Who gains peoples support and
loyalty in this situation?
How does this happen? What influences peoples values?
Who loses peoples support and
loyalty?What is helping change the
situation?
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Christian reflection
Both the reality and its analysis aresubjected to the light of faith andthe teachings of the Church
The general question is: what dothe Scriptures and the teachings ofthe Church say about the situation? Here the dynamic interplay orinteraction between faith and life
takes place.
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Christian reflection
reality may clarify, or evensuggest a direction fordevelopmentof through the useof the Scripture and the socialteachings of the Church.
reflection in faith may result in
denunciation of the situation. basically a process of faith-discernment.
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Christian reflection
Is a stage where a conscience-response is made regarding the
situation or reality
The response could be either anaffirmationor denunciation A pastoral decision is made either to
reinforce the positive situation, or topurify or change the negative
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Planning
Praxis is not haphazard.
It must be orthopraxis and
requires an adequateplanning as to how thepastoral decision could be
implemented realisticallywith the time and resourcesavailable.
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Planning
Brainstorming for concrete andpossible actions to be taken.
Whowill do what, when, where,and how? To fail to plan is to plan to fail
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Action
Praxis-proper Praxis is a transformativeexperience.
communitarian in nature should actually pervade thewhole process of the PastoralSpiral.
Action can refer to a series ofactivities organized and coordinatedin order to transform the situation
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Evaluation
Evaluation is undertaken
at two levels -- at the levelof the action taken and at
the level of the entire
process from analysis toaction.
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Evaluation
level of the action takenIs the action taken with regardto the situation effective?Is it transformative of thesituation?Does it, for instance, genuinelybring the power of the Gospelto bear on the situation? .
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Evaluation
level of process,Is there consistency from stage
one to stage five?
Has the reality and power of the
Lords grace been considered?
What has prayer contributed to
both the process and the action?
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In the end
The completion of the first PastoralSpiral necessarily results in a newsituation.
Presence of new learning and value,deeper realization of theintransigence of the situation and ofthe need for better responses shall
have emerged. newness in the apparently old
situation.