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Question 1

Interdisciplinary method to move Theory into Practice

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SEE, JUDGE, ACT method of social analysis

Question 2

SEE, JUDGE, ACT method of social analysis was initially promoted by a Belgian Catholic priest named ?

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Fr. Joseph Cardijn

Question 3

SEE, JUDGE, ACT method of social analysis was also recommended in the 1961 encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII entitled __________.

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(The Church) Mother and Teacher.

Question 4

a movement from engagement and solidarity, then to reflection and understanding, and finally to cooperative involvement and action

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SEE, JUDGE, ACT method

Question 5

• Involves the the process of seeing, hearing, experiencing and reflection on the lived reality of individuals and communities.
• Carefully and intentionally examines the primary data from the situation.
• Asks questions like: “What are the people in this situation doing, feeling, and saying?” or “What is happening to them and how do they respond?”

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See- Principle of Reflection

Question 6

Social analysis and Theological reflection

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Judge- Criteria for Judgment

Question 7

JUDGE: Obtaining a more complete picture of the social situation by exploring its historical and structural relationships. In this step, we attempt to make sense of the reality that was observed in Step 1. Why are things this way? What are the root causes?

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Social Analysis

Question 8

JUDGE: Analyzing the experience in the light of scripture and the Catholic social tradition. How do biblical values and the principles of Catholic social teaching help us to see this reality in a different way? How do they serve as a measuring stick for this experience?

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Theological reflection

Question 9

• Planning and carrying out actions aimed at transforming the social structures that contribute to suffering and injustice.
• Ask questions: Do you have enough information and analysis to act? If not, what additional research is needed? How can you act to support the empowerment of those who are poor or disadvantaged?

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Act- Direction for Action

Question 10

PRINCPLES OF CST: emerges neither from what people accomplish or own, but because we are created in the image and likeness of God. Consequently, every person is worthy of respect simply by virtue of being a human being. People do not lose the right to being treated with respect because of disability, poverty, age, lack of success, or race, let alone gain the right to be treated with greater respect because of what they own or accomplish.

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1. The Principle of Respect for Human Dignity

Question 11

PRINCPLES OF CST: An implication of the first principle is that every person, from the moment of conception to natural death has inherent dignity and a right to a life consistent with the dignity that is ours as human beings. The Catholic tradition sees the sacredness of human life as part of any moral vision for a just and good society.

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2. The Principle of Respect for Human Life

Question 12

PRINCPLES OF CST: The human person is not only sacred but also social. We cannot consider a person simply as an isolated individual but as part of a rich tapestry of relationships. When making decisions that impact the lives of others, we must consider how it impacts that person’s connections with family, friends, and the wider community.

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3. The Principle of Association

Question 13

PRINCPLES OF CST: People have a right to shape their own lives and the society in which they live. They should participate in decision processes that impact their lives and cannot be considered passive recipients of other people’s decisions. We each have a responsibility to be shapers of the kind of world in which we wish to live.

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4.The Principle of Participation

Question 14

PRINCPLES OF CST: In a world where we see deepening divisions between rich and poor, the powerful and the powerless, the Catholic tradition reminds us that God stands firmly on the side of the most marginalized members of society. While every person’s needs are important, we must consider first and foremost how the lives of the most vulnerable people are impacted or enhanced by the decisions we make.

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5. The Principle of Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable

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PRINCPLES OF CST: We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers. Learning to practice the virtue of solidarity means learning that ‘loving our neighbor’ is not, in the words of Pope John Paul II, “a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say, to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all.”

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6. The Principle of Solidarity

Question 16

PRINCPLES OF CST: We show respect for the Creator by our stewardship of creation. We have a responsibility to care for the world’s goods as stewards and trustees, not primarily, let alone merely, as consumers. As people working toward making these principles a reality, good stewardship also means making careful and responsible decisions with the resources entrusted to us.

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7. The Principle of Stewardship

Question 17

PRINCPLES OF CST: The word subsidiarity comes from the Latin word subsidium which means help, aid or support. The principle of ________ means clearly determining the right amount of help or support that is needed to accomplish a task or to meet an obligation: “not too much” (taking over and doing it for the other: thereby creating learned helplessness or overdependence) and “not too little” (standing back and watching people thrash about, thereby increasing frustration and perhaps hopelessness). The principle might be better summarised as ‘no bigger than necessary, no smaller than appropriate’.

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8. The Principle of Subsidiarity

Question 18

PRINCPLES OF CST: Given that every human being is entitled to respect and dignity merely because she/he has been created in the image and likeness of God, it follows that there is radical equality among all human beings. After all, as George Cladis points out: “competition is alien within God.” This principle lies close to the surface in every Australian. We talk of it in terms of giving people a fair go.

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9. The Principle of Human Equality

Question 19

PRINCPLES OF CST: A community is genuinely healthy when every single person is flourishing. This is not the utilitarian formula of the greatest good for the greatest number, but the moral formula of the greatest good for all, simply on the basis that they are human beings and therefore inherently worthy of respect.

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10. The Principle of Common Good