Social Factors and Views of Religion
Phenomena that colour the way people view and interact with the world they live in. These phenomena therefore affect the way people interact with religion.
What are 'social factors'
Renewing, refreshing, renovating. Opening up to the new world!
What does aggiornamento mean?
What is Voluntary Assisted Dying?
The way things are done in a religion and how things are ordered and orgranised.
What are structures and processes.
The development of a belief over time.
What is a religious teaching?
The idea that religion should be separate from government, but individuals are free to practise their faith. It is tolerated. Encourages pluralism; religion is respected but kept out of government decision-making.
What is Soft Secularism?
An irregular meeting of the entire episcopate in communion with the Pope and is, along with the Pope, the highest legislative authority of the universal Church (can. 336).
What is an Ecumenical Council?
The moral/ethical, political and social division caused by VAD in society. The strain that arises when differing values, beliefs, or ethical principles come into contact, often requiring individuals or communities to navigate complex moral or spiritual dilemmas
What is tension and conflict?
Pastoral, doctrinal, sacramental
What examples of internal Church issues?
The change of substance by which the bread and wine offered in the sacrifice of the sacrament of the Eucharist during the Mass, become, in reality, the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
What is Transubstantiation?
A political ideology that emphasises individual freedoms, civil rights, and the protection of freedom through democratic institutions. It typically supports social progress, equality, and government intervention in the economy to address social injustices. It tends to not support religion interacting with society unless there is some agreed benefit.
What is Liberalism?
A movement that allowed for more participation in the Liturgy from the laity, made the language of the Mass the vernacular, increased the amount of the bible readings read at Mass, inspired the Novus Ordo.
What is Liturgical Renewal?
The 2018 - End of Life Pastoral Statement - Archbishop Timothy Costello, Dignitas Infinita 2024 - Pope Francis, 1980 Declaration on Euthanasia - Pope John Paul II
What are examples of stuctures and processes explaining how Catholicism responds to the contentious nature of VAD?
The death or resignation of a Pope.
What is an example of an important issue impacting Catholicism.
Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 22, John 13, to need for Baptism, to bread of God is the flesh of Christ to transmutation.
What happened to Transubstantiation during the Patristic Period?
Religion is used to manipulate people. Religion is used to subjugate people. Religion is a human construct to give comfort in times of distress.
What is religion is a human invention?
Settle the theological debate between Neo-scholastics and Nouvelle Theologie by adopting two sources of Christian faith - Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition.
What is the Ressourcement?
Matthew 19:18 "He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness". Declaration on Euthanasia "The truth of euthanasia as an intrinsically evil act has been part of the Church's moral teaching for centuries."
What are beliefs and teachings that show why the Catholic Church responds to the contentious nature of VAD?
Canon 349 states: "The cardinals of the Holy Roman Church constitute a special college whose responsibility is to provide for the election of the Roman Pontiff in accord with the norm of special law; the cardinals assist the Roman Pontiff collegially when they are called together to deal with questions of major importance; they do so individually when they assist the Roman Pontiff especially in the daily care of the universal Church by means of the different offices which they perform."
During the Middle Ages there was theological debate around real vs spiritual vs symbolic presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The term 'transubstantio', coined by Hildebert of Tours, was confirmed at this Ecumenical Council.
What was the Fourth Lateran Council?
A social and economic system based on the constant acquisition of goods and services. Commodification of people.
What is consumerism?
Unitatis Redintegratio and Lumen Gentium - reversed Catholic thought on Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus by focussing on Christian unity and also recognising the importance of building relationships with religions outside of Catholicism.
What is the Ecumenical Movement (Ecumenism)?
Older generations, influenced by traditional values and religious beliefs, may view VAD as morally objectionable, emphasising the sanctity of life and the importance of natural death. In contrast, younger generations, who tend to prioritise autonomy and individual choice, are more likely to support the legalisation of VAD as a means of empowering individuals to control the timing and manner of their death.
What is an example of the division caused by VAD?
Universi Dominici Gregis (UDG) outlines how the gathering of the College of Cardinals is convened to elect a bishop of Rome, also known as the Pope. This is done in three key parts:
What is the Catholic process of Conclave?
The moment of development where the doctrine of Transubstantiation was confirmed at the Council of Trent but the theological debate based on Aristotelian 'accidents' and 'substance' was removed from the teaching.
What was the Protestant Reformation?