Catholic Social Teachings

• A new command I give you: Love one another as I have loved you, so you must love one another.” John 13:34
• The Church’s body of teachings on social realities based on Sacred Scriptures, Church Tradition, natural law and human experience. CST presents the Catholic Christian response to key modern social problems.
• This vision does not give technical solutions to social problems. Rather, it gives us:

  ● Moral principles that can help us reflect on our social problems

  ● Guidelines for moral actions

  ● Criteria for judging our moral decisions and evaluating social system.
• Church as the moral center

  ● Despite the internal and external problems that the church encounters, it never stops doing its duty.

  ● The Church helps strengthen the spiritual and moral fiber of society (CFC 1161)
• Church as the moral center

  • The Church as “people of God,” is endowed with “different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same spirit … different forms of service but the same Lord ,,, different workings but the same God who produce all of them in everyone (1 Cor 12:4-6)
• For our part, we say that we are to concretely and directly incorporate the Gospel values into our specific relationships and works.
• the leaders of the Church are mainly responsible for evangelizing the faithful. They are task to relate the Gospel values to the specific issues of the day.
• The Church and the State are two independent institutions. Each have their own distinct origin, way of proceeding, and objectives. They don’t impose to each other
• Everyone is free to choose and practice their own religion as guaranteed by the constitution.

  ● The Church does not run the government and ask no special privileges from it.

  ● The State fulfills its mission according to its own ways and means. So does the Church
• Social documents

  ● Church authorities talk about CST, they refer primarily to the documents address to the universal Church.

  ● While popes released encyclicals on various topics and practically all letters signed by them have social implications.

  ● These offer a venue for the Church to address the contemporary social, economic and political issues of specific nation or region and speak on behalf of the victims of social injustice.
• Encyclicals

  • Familiaris consortio
  • Encyclical on climate change and inequality
• Characteristics of CST

  ● Permanent

  ● Developing
• 1. Life and Dignity of the Human Person
  2. Common Good
  3. Call to Family, community and participation
  4. Rights and responsibilities
  5. Option for the poor and vulnerable
• 10 principles of cst

  6. The dignity of work and rights or workers

  7. Solidarity

  8. Care for God’s creation

  9. Subsidiarity

  10. Universal destination of goods
• The Church serves as the basic moral center of society. All leaders and members of the Church have their role to play in bringing the Gospel to daily human life.
• CST is one concrete way the Church fulfills its task of integral evangelization, proclaiming that Christ's liberation touches every aspect of human life.
• The separation of Church and State means that there is no state religion. All members of the state are free to choose and practice their own religion.
• CST is the Church's body of teachings on social realities based on the Sacred Scripture, natural law, Church Tradition, and human experience. By reflecting on social realities and assessing them in the light of the Gospel, the Church provides a Christian moral vision that grounds sound responses to many issues raised in daily life.
• Love is the most beautiful thing in life, especially when it is shared -

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