An Overview of Catholic Social Teaching and the Church as a Non-State Actor in Ghana

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-86
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
State Actor ◽  
The Church

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.

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.

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.

DUSZPASTERSTWO W POLSCE WOBEC MASS MEDIÓW

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Jacek Marek NOGOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Social Communications ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Real Challenge ◽  
The Church

Catholic social teaching pays attention to the necessity of showing greater interest in theprocess of evangelization by means of social communications, especialy through new mediaplatforms. These platforms promote and impose their own lifestyles, behaviors, preferences, choices,hierarchies of values and motivations. The presence of the Church on these platforms leads toa greater awareness of what Christianity is. With an increased involvement of the Church inthe media, there will be a greater space given in conversations about such themes as Church, God,faith, conscience and responsibility. Mass media puts pastoral ministry in a new perspective, but italso constitutes a real challenge, especially in so far as ethical requirements are concerned.

Democracy, society and truth: an exploration of Catholic social teaching

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-280
Author(s):  
Luke Bretherton
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
The State ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Political Conception ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis article maintains that modern Catholic social teaching took shape by positioning itself between revolutionary ideologies that sought to destroy the church and reactionary forces that sought to instrumentalise it. Among the factors that contributed to this development were the emergence of a theologyical and socio-political conception of the laity, reflection on the question of how humans participate in Christ's rule, the development of a consociational vision of sovereignty in distinction from top-down or monistic views, the importance of labour to a proper understanding of human dignity, and the discovery of ‘society’, as distinct from the market and the state. Appreciation of these factors resulted in the magisterial defence of democratic politics as a necessary condition for telling the truth about what it means to be human.

scholarly journals Taking Human Rights Not Too Seriously

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-64
Author(s):  
Piotr Mazurkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The West ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

The doctrine of human rights is undergoing a difficult test today. On the one hand, we are dealing with a recurring question about its universality. Is it only an expression of Western anthropological sensitivity and should therefore be observed only in the West, or does it refer to human nature as it is and should therefore be observed everywhere, including in Islamic civilisation? On the other hand, secularisation detaches the doctrine from its theistic sources, resulting in its positivisation. Human rights in this version would only be the result of agreements between people and, therefore, like any other social contract, could be freely changed or reinterpreted. An example of such a reinterpretation of the doctrine is the proposal to recognise abortion as a human right. The author also addresses these issues from the position of Catholic social teaching and raises the question of the consequences of these changes for the Church and its official absolute or conditional support for the doctrine.

Called and Gifted: Charism and Catholic Social Teaching

Horizons ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret R. Pfeil
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Dorothy Day ◽  
The Church

ABSTRACTThis essay explores the formulation of Catholic social teaching as a form of ministry structured in relation to charism. After situating the concept of charism theolgically, it addresses the significance of charism as an organizing principle for the ministry of Catholic social teaching, referring in particular to the experiences of Oswald von Nell-Breuning and Dorothy Day. Finally, it suggests a form of ecclesial participation, such as the retrieval of mystagogy, that would facilitate the free and full exercise of charisms by all those called and gifted to serve the church in the formulation of Catholic social teaching.

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