Principal or Principle?
This theme of Catholic Social Teaching is the foundation for all the rest.
What is Life and Dignity of the Human Person?
This virtue is exercised when each person is given what is owed to him or her by nature of human dignity or fair agreement.
What is justice?
While El Salvador was struggling with an unjust government who was oppressing the poor and vulnerable, this bishop stood up as a voice for justice.
Who is St. Oscar Romero?
This is an official Church document promulgated by the Pope which offers guidance and explanation about a teaching of the Catholic Church. Many of the Church's relevant teaching on its social doctrine were published in this form.
What is a papal encyclical?
An example of this theme of Catholic Social Teaching could be exercising your civic duty to vote.
What is the theme of the Call to Family, Community, and Participation?
This model describes justice as the fulness of right relationships with God, one another, and all creation.
What is the Biblical model of justice?
This is the author of a speech to US bishops in which she talks about the critical role the Church can play when it comes to education, which is both a means of evangelization and way to bring the Black community out of poverty.
Who is Sr. Thea Bowman?
This Papal Encyclical was promulgated by Pope Francis and talks the relationships among God, humans, and the earth, while also describing the current environmental crisis.
What is Laudato Si'?
This principle of Catholic Social Teaching is a helpful corrective to the individualism of the modern world. The Scriptural image that perhaps best exemplifies humanity's social nature and its call to work toward a union is the image of the one body and its various parts.
What is the principle of Solidarity?
This type of justice pertains to procedures in a court of law.
What is secular justice?
Railroad companies are guilty of this as cancer clusters have been appearing in Kashmere Gardens and the 5th Ward neighborhood, a historically African-American neighborhood.
What is environmental racism?
In this encyclical, the role of Church was shifting to address the whole word, particularly responding to the threat of nuclear war occasioned by the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is Pacem in Terris?
Here is an analogy for this theme of Catholic Social Teaching: A mother gives more attention and preference of support to her sick child, even though she loves all her children equally.
What is The Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable?
This Jesuit Superior General wrote the moving speech exhorting people to be "men for others" and helped to emphasize that the contemporary mission of the Society of Jesus is both the service of faith and the pursuit of justice.
Who is Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ?
In response to this issue, Fr Massingale recommends three things: 1) have a deeper respect for all life, before and after birth, especially black and brown lives; 2) as a democratic nation, to ask the question, "how are we living together?"; and 3) to be led by the Spirit and have the courage to hold elected officials accountable to the will of the people
gun violence in the United States
"The Gospel of Life" is the English title. This papal encyclical speaks about the incomparable worth of the human person and many threats against this in the modern world, such as "murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, or willful self-destruction."
What is Evangelium Vitae?
This principle of Catholic Social Teaching affirms that each level of society has its own proper function and sphere of authority. Therefore, a higher level of governance should respect the initiative and responsibility of the lower levels to govern itself; however, if there is a need for the higher level to step in, then it offers support and assistance.
What is principle of subsidiarity?
According to St. Thomas Aquinas, this form of justice pertains to the relationship from the social whole to the individual.
What is ministering/distributive justice?
This social theory states that the individual has no personal dignity but only has worth in connection to the contribution, work, or function for the the social whole. An example of this social theory lived out would be the Communist movement of the Soviet Union.
What is the social theory of collectivism?
This Papal Encyclical written during the papacy of St. John Paul II describes structures of sin, saying, "It is not out of place to speak of 'structures of sin,' which are rooted in personal sin...of individuals who introduce these structures, consolidate them and make them difficult to remove." These structures of sin last long after the individual when they become ingrained into a system of government, law, or the like.
What is Sollicitudo Rei Socialis?