The Integrity of Creation: Catholic Social Teaching for an Ecological Age

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-203
Author(s):  
Denis Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Theological Foundations

All creatures have value in themselves because of their relationship to God. This article surveys four different attitudes of human beings to other creatures, explores the development of recent Catholic social teaching on the integrity of creation, and then offers reflections on the theological foundations for a commitment to the integrity of creation. It is argued that human beings are companions to other creatures in an earth community, that creation is the presence and self-expression of God, and that salvation in Jesus Christ embraces and transforms the whole universe.

Catholic Social Teaching

2015 ◽  
pp. 442-456
Author(s):  
David Matzko McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Rerum Novarum ◽  
The Common

This essay considers the modern tradition of Catholic social teaching (CST). CST finds its roots in the biblical, patristic, and medieval periods, but was inaugurated in particular by Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum novarum (1891) and has been sustained by a range of papal encyclicals and conciliar documents since. The documents of CST emphasize that human beings are created for mutual cooperation and a pursuit of common good in social, economic, and political life. The essay considers first CST’s developing account of how social relations may be governed by Christian charity. It then considers the nature of property within economic relations as conceived within CST. The final section considers CST’s reflections on political life, which is understood as primarily personal and dependent on relations of mutual rights and responsibilities that are directed to the common good.

scholarly journals Life to the Full: Sustaining the Catholic Curriculum

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 983
Author(s):  
David Fincham
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Catholic Schools ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
The Face ◽  
Secular State

Catholic schools. has articulated There are concerns that the curriculum of Catholic schools has been increasingly dominated by pressures to conform to a programme of education legitimised by an intrusive secular state and designated as a ‘national curriculum’. Accordingly, the curriculum of Catholic maintained schools is regulated within a standardised framework that is directed by government. Contentiously, it has been asserted that, as a result, the curriculum in Catholic schools in England has effectively been ‘de-Catholicised’. This claim has been contested. For example, it is maintained that the matter is more nuanced than this and the situation cannot be interpreted in such an unequivocal way. However, it might well be asked: what should a Catholic curriculum look like? In the face of this question, leaders in Catholic schools are encouraged to consider renewing and restoring a distinctive curriculum by permeating it systematically with the principles of Catholic social teaching. Ultimately, the writer argues, the curriculum of Catholic schools should provide students with an understanding of the teachings of Jesus Christ.

PART I: Religious Traditions and Migration: Movement, Asylum, Borders: Christian Perspectives

1996 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
S.J. Drew Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
Theological Foundations ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
And Migration

This paper addresses from the point of view of Catholic social teaching and moral theology the questions posed by the intersection of universal human rights, especially the rights of movement, and the assertion of national sovereignty. It begins with a brief note on the theological foundations of Catholic understanding of exile and refuge, then examines the moral problems involved in the clash between rights of movement and the sovereign control of national borders.

Sprawiedliwość społeczna – człowiek i wspólnota w świetle prawa i społecznej nauki Kościoła

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Chauvin
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Legal Interpretation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Legal Language ◽  
Christian Morality ◽  
Legal Principle

The purpose of the article is to analyze the principle of social justice regualted by the Polish constitution as a category of legal language, the legal principle and the principle on which Catholic social teaching is built. Both in the opinion of the doctrine and the jurisprudence, clear references to claims in the field of Christian morality are visible. A man as a person (according to UDHR - All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights) should be supported by the community, including the state, especially if it belongs to the category of weaker or excluded entities. At the same time, however, as a member of this community he must adopt an active attitude, acting for the benefit of others. Catholic social teaching perfectly complements legal interpretation with a coherent axiological aspect.

scholarly journals Is Relationality Always Other-Oriented? Adam Smith, Catholic Social Teaching, and Civil Economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Santori
Keyword(s):  
Adam Smith ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Economic View ◽  
Civil Economy

AbstractRecent studies have investigated connections between Adam Smith’s economic and philosophical ideas and Catholic Social Teaching (CST). Scholars argue that their common background lies in their respective anthropologies, both endorsing a relational view of human beings. I raise one main concern regarding these analyses. I suggest that the relationality endorsed by Smith lacks a central element present in CST—the other-oriented perspective which is the intentional concern for promoting the good of others. Some key elements of CST, such as love, gift, gratuitousness, and fraternity, find a very different space in Smith’s social view and very little space in his economic view. Moreover, I show how CST relationality is more in accordance with a civil economy view of the market as a place of fraternity and mutual assistance.

Globalization and Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Shadle
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Catholic Social Thought ◽  
Caritas In Veritate ◽  
The World ◽  
The Trinity

In recent years the economy has become globalized. Globalization is the increased flow of goods, services, capital, people, and culture facilitated by innovations in transportation and communication technologies. This chapter examines the phenomenon of globalization and its impact on Catholic social teaching. It looks, in particular, at Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical Caritas in Veritate. Pope Benedict criticizes how the current global economy exploits and excludes vulnerable populations around the world. Caritas in Veritate further develops the communio framework initiated by John Paul II and proposes that the communion of the three Persons of the Trinity provides a model for the shape globalization should take, recognizing unity in the midst of diversity. The chapter also looks at how Catholic social thought itself is globalizing, examining in particular the work of Mary Mee-Yin Yuen from Hong Kong and Stan Chu Ilo from Nigeria.

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.

scholarly journals Catholic Social Teaching and the Firm

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 779-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Moore ◽  
Ron Beadle ◽  
Anna Rowlands ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching
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