Quiz 1.5-1.9 Flashcards
What are the seven themes of Catholic Social Teaching?
- Life and dignity of the human person.
- Call to family, community, and participation.
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Option for the poor and vulnerable
- The dignity of work and the rights of workers
- Solidarity
- Care for God’s Creation
What are the three types of justice?
Commutative
Distributive
Legal
Commutative Justice
the type of justice that governs exchanges between individuals and private groups.
it involves the justice between family, friendships, and work relationships.
Ex: paying back debt, paying restitution, and fulfilling contracts/promises.
Both parties respect each other’s dignity and fulfill their obligations
Without this, society could not function.
Requires that you get what you paid for
To give others what is rightfully theirs and to earn what you are given.
Distributive Justice
This type of justice governs what the greater community owes individuals based on their contributions and needs.
regulates what society owes its members in proportion to what they need and what they contribute.
this is an obligation for all people and all societies
not in opposition to private ownership of cars and homes. It’s more like supporting programs and providing transportation to those who can’t afford to own a method of transportation. Also, taxes for road repair and snow plowing are examples
they can also be based on someone’s need
Legal Justice
governs what individuals owe to their country and society
ex: paying taxes, obeying just laws, offering help in times of crisis, etc.
Encyclical
a letter from the Pope to the Church on issues related to human rights, social justice, and peace
Charity
the virtue by which people love God above all things for his own sake, and their neighbor as other-selves for the love of God.
serving the common good is a requirement for both charity and justice
Justice always needs to be animated by charity because we are supposed to love God and our neighbors
Social Sin
personal sin affects society and is the root of all social sin.
includes attitudes, actions, and structures that foster unjust treatment.
Three things Catholic Social Teaching is based on (Roots)
- principles for reflection: the Church helps people understand the realities of their social nature and the need for justice.
- criteria for judgment: the Church gives people the means to look at the world and judge what does not serve the dignity of the human person and embrace what does.
- guidelines for action: the Church instructs people not just to reflect upon the state of humanity, but even more to put these concepts into action.
Origins of Catholic Social Teaching?
It is deeply rooted in the Divine Revelation
the Magisterium has formed the Church’s social doctrine under the guidance of the Holy Spirit
it is rooted in the truth that God has made known to the human heart.
Divine Revelation and natural law are important for it because when are flawed
Natural Law
- Univeral: it applies to all people in all places in all times
- Permanent: it will never end
- Unchanging: it will never alter
allows people to know what is true.
Human service agencies
many have their roots in the Church’s mission to serve the needy.
Examples of Human service agencies
Catholic Charities: largest private charitable organization in the US.
Catholis Relief Services
St. Elizabeth of Hungary
devoted herself to a life of simplicity
gave food top people who came to her gate
she donated all her earthly possesions to become a secular franciscan.
she founded a hospital and served the sick
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
she was the forst american born canonized saint.
She founded the first free Catholic Schools in america and two orphanages
St. Catherine Drexel
devoted her life to the disadvantaged persons in the united States
she establishe dmore than sixty schools
they were devoted to educating native americans and african americans
St. Dorothy Day
once was an athiest
began the catholic worker movement
St. Mother Teresa
founded the missionaries of Charity
served those in dire poverty
Pope Leo XII: Rerum Novarum 1891
Addresses the dignity of the worker
looks at rights and obligations of both workers and employers
upholds rights to private property
condemns socialism and unrestrained capitalism.
Pope Pius XI: 40th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum 1931
expands the Rerum Novarum in light of the conditions
introduces the principle of subsidiarity
looks at not only the needs of the worker but also the family.
St. John XXIII: Pacem in Terris “peace on earth” 1963
details rights and responsibilities between people, between individuals and the state, and the global community.
reiterates the importance of the common good and addresses the problems with the arms race
Vatican II: Gaudium et Spes 1965
focuses on the human person as the starting point for all society and its structure– cultural, economic, political, familial
St. John Paul II: 100th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum 1991
emphasizes solidarity or social charity and looks at the new things that have emerged socially in one hundred years since Rerum Novarum
supports free markets but condemns unbridled consumerism.
St. John Paul II: Gospel of Life 1995
reiterates the most important human right; namely, the right to life
addresses specific attacks against human life, such as abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment.
Pope Francis: Laudato Si 2015
care for our common home
this is the environmental one
Who does the modern social teaching of the church develop from?
Pope Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII
lived during the ideas Karl Marx (He was reacting to capitalism)
He saw in Marxism (A brand of socialism that the pope believed to have subordinated the individual to the state and undermining human dignity) and unbridled capitalism tremendous dangers for the individual dignity.
He wrote the rerum novarum to condemn abuses of these.
