Soc Encycl PART 2 Flashcards
Centesimus Annus TITLE
The Hundrendth Year
Evangelii Gaudium WHO
Pope Francis
Care for our Common Home
Laudato Si
Justice in the World DATE
Nov 30, 1971
Evangelium Vitae DATE
March 25, 1995
A Call to Action
Octogesima Adveniens
Caritas in Veritate WHO
Pope Benedict XVI
Centesimus Annus DATE
May 15, 1991
Evangelii Gaudium DATE
Nov 24, 2013
Trivia: Says modern times bring a new form of ownership—”the possession of know-how, technology, and skill”
Centesimus Annus
Redemption includes combating injustice; evangelization should affect human judgment, values, interests, thought, and lifestyle; evangelization important in an increasingly de-Christianized world, as important to non- practicing Christians as to non- Christians; avenues of evangelization—homilies, personal witness, mass media, etc.—explored.
Evangelii Nuntiandi
Trivia: Commemorates the tenth anniversary of the conclusion of Vatican II.
Evangelii Nuntiandi
The Encyclical is not just about climate change, it is much broader. However it does call for replacing the most polluting fossil fuel and promoting renewable energy. It explain climate change as a largely human- made symptom of what is wrong in the world today, including social and economic injustice.
Laudato Si
Centesimus Annus WHO
Pope John Paul II
Trivia: Coined the phrase “Culture of Death”
Evangelium Vitae
Twenty years’ worth of unfulfilled hopes include: obvious gap between northern and southern hemispheres, global debt (forcing nations to export capital), unemployment and underemployment.
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis
Trivia: Responsible for the oft-quoted “justice…is a constitutive dimension of the preaching of the gospel.”
Justice in the World
Context: Economic crisis in the United States that eventually affects the entire world economy.
Caritas in Veritate
In his writings, the Pope calls on Christians to not turn a blind eye, before social injustice. He specifically calls out the ‘economy of exclusion and inequality.
‘The’tyranny’ of markets and the culture of idolizing money. He also addresses modern day slavery like forced prostitution and child labor, including begging
Evangelii Gaudium
Dynamics of “oppression” and “liberation” discussed, as the synod remembers that God is a “liberator of the oppressed” and recognizes that structural injustices oppress humanity.
Justice in the World
On Social Concern
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis
coincides with the women’s movement of the early 1970s and continuing student protests against the Vietnam War
Octogesima Adveniens
Trivia: Pope Benedict XVI delayed the publication of this encyclical so that the repercussions of the economic crisis could be included in his analysis and proposals
Caritas in Veritate
Innovation:The “structures of sin” insight.
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis
On Human Work
Laborem Exercens
Innovation: Challenging injustice and preaching liberation are essential components of evangelization.
Evangelii Nuntiandi
Commemorates the 80th anniversary of Rerum Novarum.
Octogesima Adveniens
Work is at the center of the social question—the key to making life more human and the measure of human dignity.
Laborem Exercens
The Joy of Gospel
Evangelii Gaudium
He warns of “spiritual worldliness” which leads apparently good Catholics to be concerned almost exclusively with power or appearances or judging others rather than recognizing their own sin and reaching out to others with the same mercy God offers them.
Evangelii Gaudium
Trivia: This was an open apostolic letter to Cardinal Maurice Roy, president of the Pontifical Commission on Justice and Peace.
Octogesima Adveniens
This document is strongly influenced by the insights of church leaders from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. “Liberation” was a strong theme of the 1968 Medellin conference of Latin American bishops.
Justice in the World
Innovation: While careful not to give a blanket endorsement, notes the benefits of capitalism as an economic system.
Centesimus Annus
Context: World economy is in flux—debt, unemployment, and recession hitting affluent and poor nations alike.
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis
Context: Document itself notes cultural problems of atheistic secularism, indifference, consumerism, focus on pleasure, discrimination, and desire to dominate.
Evangelii Nuntiandi
Evangelization in the modern world
Evangelii Nuntiandi
Octogesima Adveniens date
May 14, 1971
Pope Francis says that the heart of the Christian moral message is love for one another, which must motivate Christians to share the Gospel, help the poor and work for social justice
Evangelii Gaudium
Evangelii Nuntiandi DATE
Dec 8, 1975