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Caritas in Veritate
Opening our minds to love,
Opening our love to truth
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What is it?
THEME
In Christ, charity in truth becomes the Face ofHis Person, a vocation for us to love our
brothers and sisters in the truth of his plan
Integral Human Development
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Integral Human Development
Integral human development implies the
advance towards the true good of every
individual, community and society, in every
single dimension of human life: social,
economic, political, intellectual, spiritual
and religious. MESSAGE FOR THE FEAST OF DEEPAVALI 20093, , Pontifical Council
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Integral Human Development
Development of the whole man and of all
men" (PP, 42, Paul VI)
From less human conditions to thosewhich are more human" (PP, 20, Paul VI).
Integral human development presupposes
the responsible freedom of the individualand of peoples" (Caritas, 17).
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Background:
Populorum Progressio
Affirms the right of poor nations to fullhuman development. Decries economic
structures promoting inequality. Calls for
new international organizations and
agreements
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Background:
Populorum Progressio
Poor nations --> current economic crisis
Full human development --> caritas
Structures of inequality --> sin, truth New international organizations -->
globalization based on caritas in veritate
That is, love in the truth that we are allinterdependent
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Basic Catholic Social Teaching
CATHOLICISMS
BEST
KEPT
SECRET
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Basic Catholic Social Teaching
Catholic?
Catholic, addressed to all people
Unique insight might contribute to the growth
of humanity
Best Kept Secret
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Basic Catholic Social Teaching
1891Rerum Novarum (On New Things)
Addressed to the new world of capitalism andindustrialization
Rejects both laissez faire capitalism and Marxistcommunism
Both treat the human person as object
Defends the right of private property
But a right with limits
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Basic Catholic Social Teaching
Vatican II: Gaudium et Spes (Joy & Hope)
Reconfigures Churchs commitment to the poor
Influenced by Council of Medillin
Conference of Latin American Bishops
Focus on poverty in Latin American and Churchs
role
Revisioned the relationship of the Church to theLatin American people
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Basic Catholic Social Teaching
Option for the Poor
Council of Medellin
Always choose those options which favor the
poor
Rooted in the Bible:
Concern for justice
Sermon on the Mount
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Basic Catholic Social Teaching
Natural Law Theory
Gods plan for the world is accessible to humanreason
Human beings must come to know this planand live their lives according to it
Moral law is the foundation of positive/sociallaw
An unjust law is no law at all
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Core Ideas
Three Ideas
Three ideas guide CST
The Common Good Subsidiarity
Solidarity
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Core Ideas: Common Good
The whole network of social conditions
[that] enable human individuals to flourish
and live a fully, genuinely human life,
otherwise described as integral human
development
All are responsible for all, collectively, at
the level of society or nation, not only as
individuals
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Core Ideas: Common Good
Network
Enabling
Individuals and Groups Flourish and live fully and genuinely human
life
Responsibility Yes, I am my brothers and sisters keeper
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Core Ideas: Subsidiarity
Just as it is gravely wrong to take from
individuals what they can accomplish by
their own initiative and industry and give it
to the community, so also it is an injustice
and at the same time a grave evil and
disturbance of right order to assign to
greater or higher association what lesser andsubordinate organizations can do
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Core Ideas: Subsidiarity
Empowers
Maintains autonomy
Freedom Dignity
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Core Ideas: Solidarity
The fact that men and women in various parts of
the world feel personally affected by the injustices
and violations of human rights committed in
distance countries, countries which perhaps theywill never visit, is a further sign of a reality
transformed into awareness, thus acquiring a
moral connotation.
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Core Ideas: Solidarity
We are aware
We are affected
It is a reality Human communion and community
Working together and for each other to end
injustice
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Core Ideas
Personalism
Centrality of the person for philosophicalthought
The person is the center of social ethics
Human dignity as the core of personalism
Rights Voice
Development
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Summary
Catholic Social Teaching: a secret but a tradition
Steeped in Natural Law
Three Principles: Common Good, Subsidiarity,
Solidarity
Personalism
Structural Sin
Rejects both free-market capitalism and state-runcommunism
Option for the poor
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Summary
Populorum Progression: 1967
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis:
Caritas in Veritate: Integral Human development across the
globe
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Recap
Caritas in Veritate: truth in love
Recalls the global vision of Populorum
Progressio
Three Ideas of Catholic Social Teaching
Common Good, Subsidiarity, Solidarity
Option for the poor
Integral Human Development
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Caritas in Veritate: Content
Gods plan for us is to love our sisters and
brothers
Knowing the plan is Truth
Natural Law
Knowledge and Praxis
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Caritas in Veritate: Content
Everything is shaped by love
Everything is directed toward love (2)
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Caritas in Veritate: Content
A rejection of cultural relativism and ethical
subjectivism
90% of Americans accept, at least in word,
some form of relativism
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Caritas in Veritate: Content
To love is to desire the persons good and
to take steps to secure it
Defines our common good
Cannot fail to assume the whole humanfamily as a way to shape the earthly city
(7)
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Caritas in Veritate: Content
The risk for our time is that the de facto
interdependence of people and nations is
not matched by ethical interaction of
conscience and minds that would give riseto truly human development. Only in
charity, illumined by the light of reason and
faith, is it possible to pursue developmentgoals that possess a more humane and
humanizing value (9)
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Caritas in Veritate: Content
Progress is a vocation
In the design of God, every man is calledupon to develop and fulfill himself, for
every life is a vocation (16, quot. PP)
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Caritas in Veritate: Content
VISION
Goal of rescuing peoples, first and
foremost, from hunger, deprivation,
endemic diseases and illiteracy. From the
economic point of view, this meant their
active participation on equal terms in
economic process
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From the social point of view it meant their
evolution into educated societies marked
by solidarity.
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From the political point of view it mean the
consolidation of democratic regimes
capable of ensuring freedom and peace.
(21)
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Primary capital to be safeguarded and
valued is man, the human person in his or
her integrity (25)
Profit has a role, but a limited role (21)
States ability to safeguard the poor has been
compromised by global economy
Two-edge sword of outsourcing
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Charity in truth combats the superdevelopment
in economics, technology, and practical atheism
Integral human development fosters theinteraction of the different levels of knowledge in
order to promote the authentic development of
peoples (30)
Moral evaluation and scientific research go hand in
hand (31)
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Human being is made for gift:
transcendent dimension
Presumption of Original Sin:
Modern man sees himself as the sole
author of himself, his life, and society (34)
Individualism of modernity
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The economy has been included for some
time in the list of areas where the effects
of sin are most evident (34)
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Market, in a climate of mutual trust,
permits encounters between persons
While the market is subject to
commutative justice (giving and receiving
between parties in a transaction) the
Church emphasizes that it is subject to
distributive and social justice (35)
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The logic of gift must find a place in market
relations
Consider Bobs Red Mill foods
Without gratuitousness there is no justice.
Markets must permit free operation of
enterprises in conditions of equal opportunity Alongside profit, we allow mutualist enterprises and
pursuit of social ends
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Profound new way of understanding
business enterprises (40)
Stakeholders: any one with a stake in the
success of the company Not just stockholders
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Globalization is not a fatalistic process of
anonymous impersonal forces
Humanity is becoming increasingly
interconnected as a cultural event with
causes and effects (42)
Should offer benefits
Not victims but protagonists
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Human solidarity imposes duties
Reality sees an acclimation for rights non-essential in nature while elementary and
basic rights are being unacknowledged
and violated
A right to excess in advanced societies linked
to lack of food and water in poorer societies
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Economy needs ethics to function
correctly (45)
Man is created in the image of God
The economy is a human activity
Not an anonymous process outside our
control
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Development programmes must be based
on the centrality of the human person as
the subject primarily responsible for
development (47)
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Development must go hand in hand with a
relationship to the environment (48)
When viewed as the result of pure chance,
our sense of responsibility wanes
Nature expresses a design of love and
truth Requires solidarity with developing countries
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The way humanity treats the environmentinfluences the way it treats itself and viceversa
The decisive issue of the overall moraltenor of society (51)
Thomas Aquinas
St. Francis of Assissi
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Theme of development can be identified
with the inclusion in relation of all
individuals and peoples within the one
community of the human family, built insolidarity on the basis of fundamental
values of justice and peace (54)
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As a spiritual being, human beings are
defined through interpersonal relations
Rejects modern individualism
The development of peoples requires the
recognition that the human race is a single
family (53)
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The unity of the human race in Christian
revelation relies on a metaphysical
interpretation of the human as relational
(55)
But to offer this contribution there must be
a place for God in the public realm Reason and faith purify each other (56)
S l ti t t
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Solutions to current
economic crisisDevelopment aid for poor countries
creates wealth for all (60)
Greater solidarity means greater access to
education (61)An ability to address migration (62)
Full employment: right to work (63)
Labour unions (64) Finance must be directed toward wealth
creation and development (65)
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Globalization
Consumer has specific social
responsibility
Positive growth: consumers and their
associations (66) Cooperative purchasing
Requires Market transparency
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Globalization
A reform of the United Nations with real
teeth
To protect and give voice to poorer nations in
effective decision-making
Urgent need for a world political authority
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Technology
Challenge of development is linked to
technological progress (69)
A profound human reality
But must remember the hegemony of thespirit over matter
When efficiency and utility are the sole
criterion of truth then development isdenied (70)
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Technology
Entranced by an exclusive reliance on
technology, reason without faith is doomed
to flounder in an illusion of its own
omnipotence. Faith without reason risksbeing cut off from everyday life. (74)
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Technology
The social question has become a
radically anthropological question:
How is life conceived?
How is it manipulated as bio-technology
places human life increasingly under
mans control (75)
Is man the product of his own labor or
does he depend on God? (74)
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Technology
There cannot be holistic development and
universal common good unless peoples
spiritual and moral welfare is taken into
account, considered in their entirety asbody and soul (76)
Resurrection of the body
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Conclusion
Christian humanism:
Enkindles charity
Takes lead from truth
Both are lasting gifts from God