scholarly journals Pope Francis and Catholic Healthcare Ethics

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-201
Author(s):  
Cathleen Kaveny
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Healthcare Ethics ◽  
Field Hospital ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Third ◽  
Catholic Healthcare ◽  
The Church

This article examines the influence of Pope Francis on Catholic healthcare ethics. The first section offers an analytical summary of his ethics. The second section reviews a “Franciscan” approach to Catholic healthcare ethics, which situates that field within the broader context of Catholic social teaching. The third section analyzes the implications of three of Francis’s most powerful metaphors: his injunction to “go to the peripheries”; his contrast between a throwaway culture and a culture of encounter; and his comparison of the church to a field hospital.

Theology as Work: The Mandatum and the Rights of Labor

Horizons ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-134
Author(s):  
Patrick T. McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church ◽  
Safe Working

ABSTRACTMany oppose the mandatum as a threat to the academic freedom of Catholic scholars and the autonomy and credibility of Catholic universities. But the imposition of this juridical bond on working theologians is also in tension with Catholic Social Teaching on the rights and dignity of labor. Work is the labor necessary to earn our daily bread. But it is also the vocation by which we realize ourselves as persons and the profession through which we contribute to the common good. Thus, along with the right to a just wage and safe working conditions, Catholic Social Teaching defends workers' rights to a full partnership in the enterprise, and calls upon the church to be a model of participation and cooperation. The imposition of the mandatum fails to live up to this standard and threatens the jobs and vocations of theologians while undermining this profession's contribution to the church.

Contributions of the Social Teaching of the Roman Catholic Church on Migration

Exchange ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge E. Castillo Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Social

This article searches for contributions provided by the social teaching of the Roman Catholic Church to avoid suffering and death under migrants, that, following Pope Francis, are provoked from a ‘culture of rejection’. From an interdisciplinary approach this article facilitates the assessment of mechanisms that generate these situations. It also focuses on the ethical and theological criteria of the Catholic social teaching to achieve a culture of encounter and acceptance of migrants and refugees.

Catholic Social Teaching and Human Trafficking in War and Natural Disasters

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-331
Author(s):  
Joe Evans ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Theological Foundation ◽  
The Church

This essay examines Catholic social teaching in the context of human trafficking in South Asia during armed conflict and natural disasters. Using a see-judge-act framework to construct the argument, this paper is focused on finding ways to narrow the gaps in these efforts. The gaps occur horizontally when individual issues become isolated from a larger effort, failing to recognize that many challenges are symptoms of a larger problem. The gaps also occur vertically, with the divide between theory and practice. The Church, including religious and lay actors, can diminish the threat and damage from human trafficking through a comprehensive implementation of Catholic social teaching that has a theological foundation and is conscious of the relevant cultural factors.

Seeking Full Dignity: Catholic Social Teaching and Women in the Third World

Horizons ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-259
Author(s):  
Patricia DeFerrari
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Third World ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Status ◽  
Substantial Progress ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Major Section ◽  
The Third World

AbstractThis article explores the key factors conditioning the position of women in developing countries and then searches official Catholic social teaching for a response. The first major section of the article explores gender bias as it shapes development efforts in the third world. Findings indicate that substantial progress in developing nations depends on including women in decision-making processes at all levels. Such inclusion requires improved access to resources as a significant element in the elimination of gender bias.The second section of the article addresses official Catholic social teaching as it pertains to the status of women in society. This section concludes by identifying two significant affirmations in the tradition and three limitations.A final section challenges the tradition of Catholic social teaching by calling for both the development and adoption of an anthropology that realizes the radical equality and fundamental difference between women and men and a fuller inclusion of women in the very process of developing Catholic social teaching.

scholarly journals Safe Injection Sites: A Moral Reflection

2019 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
Steven Bozza ◽  
Jeffrey Berger
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Intervention ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Healthcare Ethics ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Common ◽  
Safe Injection

This article addresses the issue of safe injection sites (SIS) that municipalities in the United States and elsewhere in the world propose to save lives by curbing the instances of fatal overdoses and provide addicts with healthcare services and opportunities for detoxification and social rehabilitation. Drawing on current clinical science and the medical facts regarding substance abuse and addiction, widely accepted bioethical principles, Catholic social teaching, and the common good, it shows the administration and consumption of illicit recreational drugs in an SIS is not a suitable medical intervention and a violation of the core principles of Catholic social teaching and Catholic healthcare ethics. More importantly, municipal governing bodies and the clinicians who staff these facilities cooperate in the evil of illegal drug abuse. Summary: Safe injection sites are morally illicit.

Pope Francis and Catholic Social Teaching on Ecology

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-186
Author(s):  
Gregorio Guitián
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
Environmental Friendly ◽  
Synthetic View ◽  
Christian Message

Abstract In his visit to the United States, Pope Francis stressed the Christian message on ecology, which includes a calling to an “ecological conversion”. However, a recent paper on the influence of Christian religiosity on managerial decisions concerning the environment argues that Christian faith discourages managers’ environmental-friendly decisions. Francis message on ecology is part of the Catholic Social Teaching (CST), which contains valuable contributions, but it is still to be known. We present a synthetic view of CST on ecology and its implications for businesses, shareholders and consumers, which can also interest non-Christians concerned with the natural environment. Ultimately, we want to explain why Christians involved in economic activity should be concerned with the natural environment. We offer a moral qualification of acts regarding the natural environment, and conclude with some observations for Christian churches and business schools.

An Apocalypse Converted: William Stringfellow and Catholic Social Teaching on Climate Breakdown

2021 ◽  
pp. 095394682110313
Author(s):  
Kevin Hargaden
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Spiritual Awakening ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
Repeated Calls ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Integral Ecology

In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis advances the concept of integral ecology to connect the environmental crisis with a range of social crises afflicting our societies. This concept is grounded in a theological commitment, but directed towards its political effects. Those two trajectories are represented by the encyclical’s articulation of a spiritual awakening described as an ecological conversion and its repeated calls to dialogue. Francis is not unaware of the risk that a naïve engagement in dialogue could stifle serious mitigation of the crises we face. Yet, even with many dire warnings about outcomes, much of the contemporary discourse around the climate and biodiversity crisis runs the risk of underestimating the nature of the problem. Apocalyptic theology, specifically in the work of William Stringfellow, is proposed as a valuable interlocutor at this point. Stringfellow’s account of the Christian life as a battle with the forces of Death allows Christians to name that which we are converted from in an ecological conversion, strengthening the grounds upon which dialogue is engaged.

An Integral Ecology as the Ground for Good Business

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-70
Author(s):  
Michael Naughton
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Integral Relationship ◽  
Spiritual Consciousness ◽  
Integral Ecology

Integral ecology is an increasingly important term in Catholic social teaching. This paper brings this term in relation to business drawing upon the integral relationship between human and natural ecology. Pope Francis and his two predecessors believe that the current ecological conversation can increase our sensitivity to our impact on the natural environment as well as help us to rediscover the moral and spiritual consciousness of human nature and development that has been weakened and disordered in the wider culture. An integral ecology can enlarge our notion of the good, especially the good in business. Without the cultural and environmental insights from an integral ecology that has the capacity to provide deep moral and spiritual roots, business will always be prone to see itself within its own autonomous and utilitarian sphere failing to connect to the natural and human realities in which it is embedded.

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