Catholic Social Doctrine and Human Rights: From Rejection to Endorsement?

The social doctrine of the Catholic Church is an indication of the active involvement of the Church in disseminating the ideas ofthe welfare state and it reflects its attempts to establish ideals of the welfare state through an external influence on the ideology of countriesthat belong to Christendom.Furthermore, one cannot ignore the fact that encyclicals had a direct or indirect influence on the adoption of the first social protectionacts in Catholic Europe where encyclicals played an important role.As a result, the Holy See aligned itself with the labour movement.Considering the fact that papal encyclicals covered the entire Catholic World, these documents can be viewed as an example ofinternational soft law.The first social rights, principles, and values in the area of social protection were enshrined in the encyclicals.Social rights belong to second-generation human rights the legal basis for which comprises international instruments adoptedafter the Second World War (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the Convention for the Protection of Human Rightsand Fundamental Freedoms (1950), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966), the European SocialCharter (Revised) (1965–1996), the European Code of Social Security (1964), meaning 50 years after these rights were enshrined inpapal encyclicals.There is an indisputable fact that has still not been discussed in scientific research on social protection and according to whichthe social doctrine of the Catholic Church can be viewed as an inherent part of the process of occurrence, formation, and developmentof social protection, and it can be regarded as an ideological framework, a source of social rights and principles of social protection.Considering the above-mentioned findings, the social doctrine of the Catholic Church can be defined as the body of legislationadopted by the Holy See regarding the status and development of social and labour rights, their place in a person’s life and in publiclife. Papal encyclicals form the basis of that legislation and they are addressed to believers, bishops, and archbishops.

METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL TEACHING OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE

The Educational Discourse a collection of scientific papers ◽

10.33930/ed.2019.5007.29(12)-7 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 68-81

Author(s):

Bogdan Gulyamov

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Social Teaching ◽

Christian Humanism ◽

Social Doctrine ◽

The Social ◽

The Individual ◽

The Church

Orthodox social doctrine as a discipline is formed without the elements of scholastic thinking that are characteristic of Catholicism. This is due to the fact that social doctrine in Orthodoxy is thought of as an expression of tradition, not the teaching of the church. Also, the methodology of the social doctrine of the Ecumenical Patriarchate was significantly influenced by the fact that the initial principle for all reflections was the value of the dignity of the individual. The absolutization of this value has made it possible to create a Christian humanism that opposes the ideological extremes of modern cultural wars, including the abuse of the idea of human rights. The ROC uses methodological anti-scholasticism in the construction of social doctrine to legitimize the ideas of Orthodox fundamentalism. Against this background, the social doctrine of the Ecumenical Patriarchate is becoming a worldview alternative, critical to the development of Ukrainian theology and education.

The Influence of Catholic Social Doctrine on Human Rights

Journal of Catholic Social Thought ◽

10.5840/jcathsoc20131015 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 69-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mary Ann Glendon ◽

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Social Doctrine

RIGHTS AND DIGNITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE SOCIAL TEACHING OF THE PATRIARCHATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE

The Educational Discourse a collection of scientific papers ◽

10.33930/ed.2019.5007.30(1)-8 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 79-92

Author(s):

Bohdan Gulyamov

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Religious Discourse ◽

Legal Consciousness ◽

Social Teaching ◽

Orthodox Church ◽

Social Doctrine ◽

The Social ◽

Personal Dignity ◽

The Many ◽

The Individual

The concept of human rights and the dignity of the individual, contained in the new social doctrine of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, proposes to recognize modern theories of human rights and their implementation in today's democracy as self-evident truths. These truths are quite legitimate in religious discourse, because the personal dignity of man as capable of mystical communion with God is absolute. The Orthodox Church presupposes that the dignity and freedom of the individual, his vocation and perfection are much higher than all the many values and norms offered by modern secular moral and legal consciousness, relevant international acts and constitutional norms. In the field of social doctrine, this leads to the requirement of absolute recognition of classical human rights and freedoms. No conclusions are drawn about the need to accept today's expanded interpretation of human rights, because the absolute dignity of the individual is not protected for the sake of approving ideas and practices that show signs of totalitarian coercion.

Human Rights in the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church

Promoting Justice, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution through International Law / La promotion de la justice, des droits de l’homme et du règlement des conflits par le droit international ◽

10.1163/ej.9789004153837.i-0.149 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 499-510

Author(s):

Krzysztof Skubiszewski

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Catholic Church ◽

Social Doctrine ◽

The Social ◽

The Catholic Church

Human Rights as Natural Juridical Goods and the Juridical Domain of the Principles of Catholic Social Doctrine

Nova et vetera ◽

10.1353/nov.2020.0047 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 909-944

Author(s):

Petar Popović

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Social Doctrine

Catholic Social Thought and Sustainability. Ethical and Economic Alignment

Journal of Risk and Financial Management ◽

10.3390/jrfm14010011 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 11

Author(s):

Ana María Gómez-Bezares ◽

Fernando Gómez-Bezares

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Financial Performance ◽

Catholic Church ◽

Point Of View ◽

Catholic Social Thought ◽

Business Sustainability ◽

Social Doctrine ◽

Ethical Point ◽

The Social ◽

Stakeholder Model

In this research, we demonstrate that business sustainability can be a model to foster in order to reach real development, as it is shown that business sustainability has both an ethical and economic logic. Even though, from an ethical point of view, sustainability can be well-founded on human rights and civic ethics, our goal in this paper has been to sustain and enrich business sustainability based on the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church, which can be shared in its advises by many non-Catholic people, as it is a rich source of wisdom. We have also studied its economic logic; analyzing why it is justified for sustainable companies to obtain good results, formulating the model to alleviate the agency problem (which allows it to overcome the traditional stakeholder model), studying empirical analyses that demonstrate the good financial performance of sustainable companies, and making a new analysis that confirms the above.

The social doctrine of the catholic church as a foundation for the emergence of the legal regulation in the area of social protection in Europe

Law Review of Kyiv University of Law ◽

10.36695/2219-5521.3.2020.64 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 353-357

Author(s):

Mykhailo Shumylo

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Welfare State ◽

Catholic Church ◽

Social Protection ◽

Legal Regulation ◽

Social Rights ◽

Holy See ◽

Social Doctrine ◽

The Social ◽

The Catholic Church

The social doctrine of the Catholic Church is an indication of the active involvement of the Church in disseminating the ideas ofthe welfare state and it reflects its attempts to establish ideals of the welfare state through an external influence on the ideology of countriesthat belong to Christendom.Furthermore, one cannot ignore the fact that encyclicals had a direct or indirect influence on the adoption of the first social protectionacts in Catholic Europe where encyclicals played an important role.As a result, the Holy See aligned itself with the labour movement.Considering the fact that papal encyclicals covered the entire Catholic World, these documents can be viewed as an example ofinternational soft law.The first social rights, principles, and values in the area of social protection were enshrined in the encyclicals.Social rights belong to second-generation human rights the legal basis for which comprises international instruments adoptedafter the Second World War (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the Convention for the Protection of Human Rightsand Fundamental Freedoms (1950), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966), the European SocialCharter (Revised) (1965–1996), the European Code of Social Security (1964), meaning 50 years after these rights were enshrined inpapal encyclicals.There is an indisputable fact that has still not been discussed in scientific research on social protection and according to whichthe social doctrine of the Catholic Church can be viewed as an inherent part of the process of occurrence, formation, and developmentof social protection, and it can be regarded as an ideological framework, a source of social rights and principles of social protection.Considering the above-mentioned findings, the social doctrine of the Catholic Church can be defined as the body of legislationadopted by the Holy See regarding the status and development of social and labour rights, their place in a person’s life and in publiclife. Papal encyclicals form the basis of that legislation and they are addressed to believers, bishops, and archbishops.