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CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING

CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING. Catholic Social Teaching strives to foster a living faith that leads to loving action in the world today. Catholic Social Teaching ( CST) is the church’s presentation of its reflection upon human beings in society.

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CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING

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  1. CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING

  2. Catholic Social Teaching strives to foster a living faith that leads to loving action in the world today.

  3. Catholic Social Teaching ( CST) is the church’s presentation of its reflection upon human beings in society.

  4. CST sets about naming realities, highlighting the dangers to full human flourishing and critiquing them from the point of view of the Catholic faith.

  5. It embodies core themes and responses to challenges facing human beings in a complex and changing world.

  6. This body of teaching is not a fixed body of writings or doctrine but grows, develops and changes over time.

  7. CST comes from BIBLICAL resources- the revealed and living word of God.

  8. CST comes from MORAL resources- it grows out of scripture and engages human reason, knowing, experience

  9. CST comes from Ecclesial Resources- the writings of Popes and Bishops

  10. THE METHOD OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING

  11. It begins with God and recognizes the following:

  12. God acts in history

  13. God is present in reality

  14. God’s revelation is ongoing

  15. It names reality and its impact upon the person in society:

  16. It reads the signs of the times.

  17. It takes the realities of the world on its terms and looks at them through the eyes of faith.

  18. It looks at social, political, economic, and cultural realities and engages in dialogue with them.

  19. It raises moral and ethical questions.

  20. It focuses on the person in society:

  21. It looks to how the poorest and most vulnerable are faring as an indicator of the degree of justice present and active.

  22. It preserves and defends the dignity and worth of the person because they are made in the image and likeness of God.

  23. It raises the questions about the definition and direction of “progress” and who benefits or suffers.

  24. It strives to form the Christian community:

  25. It serves as a call to draw one into awareness, analysis, discernment, and action as a Christian in the world.

  26. It teaches in order to form consciences.

  27. It fosters recognition of the gospel call to love of God, neighbor, the earth, and self.

  28. It attempts to break through apathy and blindness so that a preferential option for the poor is possible.

  29. It is a call to embrace one’s true vocation as a Christian disciple in the world.

  30. It sets forth a social vision, which strives to focus the consciousness, reflection and action of the person in community.

  31. It calls for a response that will lead to transformative action:

  32. It presents principles and takes principled stands. It does not offer complete models or ideologies.

  33. Its hope and goal is to work in collaboration with all people of good will to bring about a better world for humankind.

  34. It seeks action, which strives for greater symmetry between the reign of God and social order.

  35. It recognizes that this process is ongoing.

  36. It seeks greater peace and greater justice.

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