Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

•resist the “culture of death” •create a “culture of life” •“CD” is an attitude of callousness toward human life•“CL” is grounded in the Gospel

Pope John Pope John Paul II Paul II

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

•sums up the teachings of the Church on social justice issues•grounded in the Word of God & Christian Community (Church)

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

•promotes a vision of a just society

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

•grounded in the Scriptures/Word of God•based on the wisdom gathered from Christian community’s experiences

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

•are unfamiliar with the basic content of CST•do not understand that Church’s social

mission is an essential part of the faith

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

•to share the social mission •to spread the message of our Church

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

•A faith w/o a mission weakens our capacity to be a Church

to be true to the demands of the Gospel

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

•The Social Teaching of the Church is integral to Catholic faith. •The social justice dimensions are integral to Catholic education and catechesis.

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

•Both are essential parts of our Catholic identity and our mission. •This is our faith and this is what we teach.

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Let us not develop an education that creates in the mind of the student a hope of becoming rich and having the power to dominate...

Let us form in the heart of the child... the lofty ideal of loving, of preparing oneself to serve and to give oneself to others...

Anything else would be education for selfishness…

Bishop Bishop Oscar RomeroOscar Romero

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

•is a community of faith •its purpose it is to facilitate the realization of the Reign of God in history

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

•in preaching the Gospel, is a sign •& a safeguard of the dignity of the human person

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

•its action on behalf of justice is “constitutive”

not extra-curricular or optional•action on behalf of justice & •participation in the transformation of the world constitutive dimension of preaching of the Gospel

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

•for the redemption of the human race

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

•for human liberation from every oppressive situation

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

If you want peace,

work for justicePope Paul VI Pope Paul VI

Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges