Catholic Social Teaching PDF

Bell Work: Where do our Church Teachings come from?  Unit 2: Social Teachings in the Modern Era Objectives: Students will… Understand the changes in the modern world in the 1800s and how they lead to significa...

Bell Work: Where do our Church Teachings come from?  Unit 2: Social Teachings in the Modern Era Objectives: Students will… Understand the changes in the modern world in the 1800s and how they lead to significant injustices. Know the significant encyclicals and pastoral letters related to themes of justice Know and understand the core 7 themes of Catholic Social Teaching as defined by the USCCB. Please explain two of the following people from Ch 2 Dis-Grace: Carmen Danny (yelled at by Candy) Lula Sniper Speedy  Signs of the Times: Realities faced by people in the world SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH Body of teaching by the Church on economic and social matters including moral judgments and demands for action in favor of those being harmed ○From: Bible, Tradition, & interpretation of the signs of the times Encyclical Pastoral Letter Teaching document from the Documents written by the Pope about topics of social national conferences of bishops justice, human rights, & peace teaching about social justice issues  Without looking at your notes... NEIGHBOR What’s the difference between an QUIZ encyclical and a pastoral letter? CHECK-IN! How are they similar?  The national Bishop’s conference for our country is the USCCB which stands for United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. IF YOU WERE LOOKING FOR ONE BOOK THAT INCLUDED THE TEACHINGS OF CATHOLICISM AND AN OVERVIEW OF THE BELIEFS AND PRACTICES, WHAT BOOK WOULD YOU NEED TO LOOK AT?  These are all available online. KEY ENCYCLICALS The link to the Vatican website is posted in Google Classroom. -On the Condition of Labor by Leo XIII (1891) -Peace on Earth by John XXIII (1963) -On Human Work by John Paul II (1981) -Care for our Common Home (Laudato Si’) by Pope Francis (2015) Vatican website: http://www.vatican.va/offices/papal_docs_list.html  Also available online. The link to the USCCB KEY PASTORAL LETTERS website is posted in FROM THE USCCB Google Classroom. Brothers and Sisters to Us (1979) The Challenge of Peace: God’s Promise and Our Response (1983) Economic Justice for All (1986) Confronting a Culture of Violence (1994) A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death (2005) USCCB website http://www.usccb.org/ CHURCH DOCUMENT ACTIVITY SMALL GROUPS Group 1: On the Condition of Work (Rerum Novarum) Group 2: Peace on Earth (Pacem in Terris) Group 3: The Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes) Group 4: Confronting a Culture of Violence Group 5: Economic Justice for All Group 6: Caritas in Veritae LEARN ABOUT YOUR ASSIGNED CHURCH DOCUMENT WITH YOUR SMALL GROUP Make a poster that: Outlines main points of In your small group, on pgs your group’s encyclical 44-54 in CST, read about the define and historical context and summary explain concepts of your assigned Church and how it document applies/where do Read the summary on Google we see it present classroom in our lives today  What was surprising... confusing… reassuring… This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY about the passages we read? This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC  -What is your rose (good thing) BELL bud (thing you’re looking forward to) WORK and thorn (tough/hard thing) this week and why?  PRAYER: WILD GEESE BY MARY OLIVER You do not have to be good. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in You do not have to walk on your the clean blue air, knees are heading home again. for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, You only have to let the soft animal of your body the world offers itself to your imagination, love what it loves. calls to you like the wild geese, Tell me about despair, yours, and harsh and exciting - I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. over and over announcing your place Meanwhile the sun and the clear in the family of things. pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees,  Bell work & prayer Encyclical continued AGENDA Gaudium Et Spes LEARN ABOUT YOUR ASSIGNED CHURCH DOCUMENT WITH YOUR SMALL GROUP Make a poster that: Outlines main points of In your small group, on pgs your group’s encyclical 44-54 in CST, read about the define and historical context and explain concepts summary of your assigned and how it Church document applies/where do Read the summary on Google we see it present classroom in our lives today CHURCH DOCUMENT ACTIVITY SMALL GROUPS Group 1: On the Condition of Work (Rerum Novarum) Group 2: Peace on Earth (Pacem in Terris) Group 3: The Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes) Group 4: Confronting a Culture of Violence Group 5: Economic Justice for All Group 6: Caritas in Veritae HIGHLIGHTING MAJOR ENCYCLICALS!  MAKING MODERN CONNECTIONS TO ENCYCLICALS! 1. Silently walk around the room and look at each poster 2. Independently, brainstorm two current events, trends, things in the news, or causes which are relevant to this encyclical (if you want to use your device to google news stories, that’s fine) 3. Write 1-2 short phrase(s) or news headline(s) of an issue/current event that corresponds with the encyclical/pastoral letter (Please include your name) We’ll rotate through so you’ll be able to see your classmates’ ideas and get to make connections to multiple modern-day issues. ☺ Bell Work Oct 15th What is one encyclical or Pastoral Letter you learned more about? Summarize what you learned and why it is important in today’s world. On the Condition of Work (Rerum What is the main Novarum) Leo XIII, 1891 message from this In protecting the rights of private individuals, quote? however, special consideration must be given to the weak and the poor. For the nation, as it were, of the rich, is guarded by its own defenses and is in less need of governmental Why do you think protection, whereas the suffering multitude, the Pope who without the means to protect itself, relies wrote it wanted to especially on the protection of the State. Wherefore, since wage workers are share this message numbered among the great mass of the with the worldwide needy, the State must include them under its Catholic Church ? special care and foresight. (#54)  ON THE CONDITION OF LABOR First of the modern (RERUM social encyclicals NOVARUM) 1891, Articulated Problems POPE LEO Proposals Made XIII -Adverse conditions of workers -Cooperation between classes -Dignity of work -Effects of unchecked capitalism -Just wage -Communism -Right to unionize ̶Church gave a definitive “no” to this form of government -Role of state ̶ Gov’ts serve the common good -Fair distribution of private property -Wealthy have moral obligation to share with the poor  RERUM NOVARUM: PROPOSALS MADE (CONTINUED) Proposals made: What are examples of -Cooperation between classes these proposals being -Dignity of work lived out in the world today? -Just wage -Right to unionize -Role of state What are examples of ̶ Gov’ts serve the common good where the world could still -Fair distribution of private heed these proposals to property more positively contribute -Wealthy have moral obligation to to the common good? share with the poor  DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH (GAUDIUM ET SPES) VATICAN II The Church has always had the duty of What does each scrutinizing the signs of the times and of underlined interpreting them in the light of the phrase mean? Gospel. Thus, in language intelligible to each generation, she can respond to the perennial questions which [people] ask about this present life and the life to come, and about the relationship of the one to the other. (#4)  MAKING MODERN CONNECTIONS TO ENCYCLICALS! 1. Silently walk around the room and look at each poster 2. Independently, brainstorm one current event, trend, things in the news, or cause which is relevant to each encyclical/pastoral letter (if you want to use your device to google news stories, that’s fine) 3. Write a description of the issue/current event that corresponds with the encyclical/pastoral letter and an explanation of how it connects to the encyclical/current event. (Please include your name) We’ll rotate through so you’ll be able to see your classmates’ ideas and get to make connections to multiple modern-day issues. ☺  What is the main Care for our Common Home (Laudato message from this Si) Pope Francis, 2015 quote? A change in lifestyle could bring healthy pressure to bear on those who wield political, economic and social power. This is what consumer movements accomplish by boycotting certain products. They Why do you think prove successful in changing the way businesses the Pope who operate, forcing them to consider their environmental footprint and their patterns of production… This wrote it wanted to shows us the great need for a sense of social share this responsibility on the part of consumers. “Purchasing message with the is always a moral – and not simply economic – act.” Today, in a word, “the issue of environmental worldwide degradation challenges us to examine our lifestyle”. Catholic Church ? (#206)  What is the main message from this Peace on Earth (Pacem in Terris) John quote? XXIII, 1963 The common good is chiefly guaranteed when personal rights and duties are maintained. The chief concern of civil Why do you think authorities must therefore be to ensure that the Pope who these rights are acknowledged, respected, wrote it wanted to coordinated with other rights, defended and share this promoted, so that in this way each one may message with the more easily carry out his duties. For “to worldwide safeguard the inviolable rights of the Catholic Church ? human person, and to facilitate the fulfillment of his duties, should be the chief duty of every public authority.” (#60)  DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH (GAUDIUM ET SPES) VATICAN II The Church has always had the duty of What does each scrutinizing the signs of the times and of underlined interpreting them in the light of the phrase mean? Gospel. Thus, in language intelligible to each generation, she can respond to the perennial questions which [people] ask about this present life and the life to come, and about the relationship of the one to the other. (#4)  MAKING MODERN CONNECTIONS TO ENCYCLICALS! 1. Silently walk around the room and look at each poster 2. Independently, brainstorm one current event, trend, things in the news, or cause which is relevant to each encyclical/pastoral letter (if you want to use your device to google news stories, that’s fine) 3. Write a description of the issue/current event that corresponds with the encyclical/pastoral letter and an explanation of how it connects to the encyclical/current event. (Please include your name) We’ll rotate through so you’ll be able to see your classmates’ ideas and get to make connections to multiple modern-day issues. ☺ Make sure you have filled out each of these terms. Check-in with your Common Good neighbor if you missed a Social Doctrine of the Church Social Encyclicals term or need some Rerum Novarum (On the Condition of clarification Labor), Pope Leo XIII USCCB Pastoral Letters Catechism of the Catholic Church On a sheet of paper, write the term I am describing. We will see what you know. ☺  -What do you know about Catholic Social BELL Teaching? -Can you name any of the 7 WORK principles? -If not, what do you think it might be about?  7 THEMES OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING First articulated together in 1998 by the USCCB in Sharing Catholic Social Teaching to assist in the teaching and sharing of the Church’s social justice teachings  A central and essential element of the Catholic faith Has roots in the Hebrew prophets They announced God’s special love for the poor And called God’s people to a covenant of love and FOUNDATIONS OF justice CATHOLIC SOCIAL Is founded on the life and words of Jesus TEACHING (CST) Who came “to bring glad tidings to the poor... Liberty to the captives...recovery of sight to the blind” (Luke 4:18-19) Who identified himself with “the least of these,” the hungry, and the stranger (Matthew 25:45) Is built on commitment to the poor  What do you already know? 1. Life and ______ of the _______ 2. Call to _______, Community, and Matching: Participation Creation 3. Rights and _________ Dignity 4. Option for the _____ and Family Vulnerable Human person 5. Dignity of _____ and Rights of Poor _____ Responsibilitie s 6. Solidarity Work 7. Care for God’s _______  1. Life and Dignity of the Human THEMES Person OF 2. Call to Family, Community, and Participation CATHOLI 3. Rights and Responsibilities C 4. Option for the Poor and Vulnerable SOCIAL 5. Dignity of Work and Rights of TEACHIN Workers G 6. Solidarity 7. Care for God's Creation  HOW DOES EACH PICTURE RELATE TO YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF JUSTICE?  DEFINITION OF JUSTICE -The cardinal virtue concerned with the rights and duties within relationships -The commitment, as well as the actions and attitudes that flow from the commitment, to ensure that all persons—particularly people who are poor and oppressed—receive what is due to them -Justice guides us to work for the common good -What is a non-profit organization you have volunteered with or heard of that is addressing one of the themes of Catholic Social Teaching? -What work are they doing to address that theme? -How is justice being pursued by these organizations?  What are BELL WORK: the things in your life that fill your spirit? Explain/ describe.  PRAYER: FILL YOUR CUP 9 ways to fill your cup (from Rebecca Ruiz) 1) Community 2) Nature 3) Being present 4) Practice pause/silence 5) Prayer 6) Music 7) Rest 8) Laughter 9) Nurturing yourself & others Reflection questions: -In what areas of your life are you feeling drained? -What is one thing you can do this week to fill your cup?  1. LIFE AND DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON ▪Most fundamental theme of Catholic social teaching ▪All human beings have dignity because we are created and loved by God ▪ Every person’s life matters ▪Called to respect and protect human life ▪Called to allow people to live and help others live to their fullest potential  Please name the first principle of Catholic Social Teaching and define it. Then give an example of where you see this principle upheld in BELL WORK: our society today. PRAYER 1. What is “human dignity” and why is it an important concept when talking aboutonhuman Reflection rights? “Refugees, human trafficking, and the Principle of Life and Dignity” 2. How does human trafficking violate dignity? 3. How does oppressing another person violate one’s own dignity?  So What? What do we do? In groups of 3-4 read your article provided on Google Classroom. Write a summary of what you learned and how your classmates can get involved to help prevent/fight against human trafficking. Make a google slideshow that includes the summary and action steps.  What are two rights you have as a person living in the United States that you most appreciate? Explain why you Bell Work Oct. chose these two 22nd rights.  WITH YOUR PARTNER, DISCUSS THE 2 FOLLOWING SLIDES TOGETHER AND BE READY TO SHARE OUT WITH THE CLASS.  What is the Pope saying in this QUOTES FROM THE CHURCH quote? What stands out to you? What inspires or challenges you? Every threat to human dignity is felt in the church’s heart. It affects its faith and engages its mission of proclaiming the Gospel of Life – a proclamation especially pressing because of the new threats to the life of individuals and peoples, especially where life is weak and defenseless. Next to the old scourges of poverty, hunger, disease, violence, and war, new threats are arising at an alarming scale. I repeat the words of the Second Vatican Council condemning crimes and attacks against human life: “-whatever is opposed to life itself such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, or willful self-destruction; -whatever violates the integrity of the human person such as mutilation, torments indicted on body or mind, attempts to coerce the will itself; -whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; – as well as disgraceful working conditions, where people are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons … all these things and others of their kind are infamies indeed. They poison human society, but they do more harm to those who practice them than to those who suffer from injury. Moreover they am a supreme dishonor to the Creator.” Pope John Paul II, (Evangelium Vitae, 3)  QUOTES FROM THE CHURCH Loving life means always taking care of the other, wanting the best for him, cultivating and respecting her transcendent dignity.” -Pope Francis, Address to Meeting of the Science and Life Association What is the Pope saying in this quote? What stands out to you? What inspires or challenges you?  1. LIFE AND DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON Examples Where is this Where is this upheld? violated? At Totino-Grace In Minneapolis In the United States In the World  2. CALL TO FAMILY, COMMUNITY, AND PARTICIPATION Society fulfills responsibilities to Families have a responsibility to the family participate in society ▪Providing/Creating jobs that pay ▪Helping neighbors and vulnerable enough to support a family members of society ▪Ensuring basic necessities like food, ▪Being involved in the political process housing, education, healthcare, etc. regardless of ability to pay ▪Staying informed about issues in their community, state, nation, and the world ▪What else would you add? ▪What else would you add? ❖What are some ways you contribute to the life of your family? ❖How do you contribute to the TG community? ❖How do you contribute to the larger community?  What are two rights you have as a person living in the United States that you most appreciate? Explain why you chose these two rights.  A brief explanation Because humans have equal dignity, every person has the right to the things necessary to live.  Focuses on human rights Additionally, includes economic, political, and cultural rights Some examples: Right to life Includes: Right to food, clothing, shelter, medical care, etc. 3. RIGHTS & Right to immigrate RESPONSIBILITIES Political rights ❖What are your rights as a TG student? What responsibilities go along with those rights? ❖What are your rights as a US citizen? What responsibilities go along with those rights? ❖How are individual rights and the common good sometimes at odds?  Make a skit about one of the following rights and our responsibility as Catholics to make sure these rights are met: What are your rights as a TG student? What responsibilities go along with those rights? What are your rights as a US citizen? What responsibilities go along with those rights?  Who would you identify as most vulnerable in your community (at T-G, BELL in Minneapolis, in the WORK U.S., in the world, etc.) and how can you support vulnerable people in your community? Option for Taking care of the poor and vulnerable the Poor ○ Orphans, widows, elderly Issues: Medicare, shelters, and welfare, foster system, lack of education or resources, Vulnerable immigration  Economy must serve people Dignity of work protected The Dignity of Right to productive work, decent Work and the and fair wages, unions, private property and economic initiative Rights of Issues: slavery, unfair wages, child labor, safety regulations, Workers women being paid less for same work, human trafficking  One human family We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers Solidarity Issues: division based on race, nationality, economic status, religion, ethnicity and ideology  Respect for God’s creation and stewardship Care for God’s Protect people and the planet Issues: global warming, pollution, Creation exploitation of resources, deforestation, destruction of habitats, animal abuse  Catholic social teaching TAKE-A-STAND Take a Stand It is not important to consider your faith when you vote. Take a Stand People should give both time and money to charities in their community. Take a Stand Being a faithful person calls for one to be environmentally conscious. Take a Stand We should not pay attention to where our food and other products are coming from. Take a Stand People have an obligation to speak out against perceived assaults on humanity. Take a Stand War is never an option. Take a Stand Watching out for the well-being of animals is not necessary to being a faithful citizen. Take a Stand Protecting the common good of others around the world is less important as protecting our own Take a Stand We have a responsibility to follow our government’s laws even when we disagree with them.  PRAYER: GIVE US HEARTS BY FR. DAN HARTNETT, S.J. God of love and compassion: may we always recognize your spirit: in the refugee family, seeking safety from violence; in the migrant worker, bringing food to our tables; in the asylum-seekers, seeking justice for their families; in the unaccompanied child, traveling in a dangerous world. Give us hearts that break open whenever our brothers and sisters turn to us. Give us hearts that no longer turn deaf to their voices in times of need; Give us eyes to recognize a moment for grace instead of a threat. Give us voices that fail to remain silent but which decide instead to advocate prophetically. Give us hands that reach out in welcome, but also in work, for a world of justice until all homelands are safe and secure.  1. WHAT 2. ARE 3. THE 4. Option for the Poor and Vulnerable FIRST 3 5. Dignity of Work and Rights THEME of Workers S OF 6. Solidarity CST? 7. Care for God's Creation  1. Life & dignity of the human person 2. Call to family, community, and participation Which theme of 3. Rights & responsibilities CST do you feel 4. Option for the Poor and most passionate about and why? Vulnerable 5. Dignity of Work and Rights of Workers 6. Solidarity 7. Care for God's Creation  4. OPTION FOR THE POOR AND VULNERABLE o Why does God call us to care for the poor and vulnerable first? ▪Their needs are greater ▪Called preferential option for the poor (What does preferential mean?) o Calls for a commitment to take action, get to know people, work for justice “A basic moral test is how our most vulnerable members are faring" ~from the USCCB document Sharing Catholic Social Teaching  A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE OPTION FOR THE POOR AND https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWuoECv VULNERABLE wjUA&list=PLpTzvCOJa7DD2S8DA5oXwyG Cz6QS-BgMk&index=5 What messages or examples stand out to you?  “For they did not choose to be poor, they are made poor by others and by systems and structures in society.” “The people we serve who are in poverty, who are in need, are the face of Christ, and because of that have so e much to teach us.” Som from u otes o… q vide “Let us encounter the poor not in the superiority…I grow in my own humanity when I encounter the What stands out to you about this person of the poor.” teaching? What examples resonate with you? How can we more fully serve the poor in “We should always put the poor our lives? first.”  UNIVERSAL DESTINATION OF GOODS -The principle that the Earth and all its goods belong to God, and God intends those goods to provide the things all human beings need to live with dignity -Takes precedence over right to private property 🡪 Meaning people do not have the right to How does this teaching accumulate money and possessions when other challenge us to people lack the money and possessions needed for examine our survival socio-economic privilege? TUESDA A) Have you ever had a Y job? What was it? Do you feel that you were treated fairly by your employer? BELL Why or why not? WORK B) If you have never had a job, explain what career you intend to pursue in the future and why. PRAYER Bell Work: What are the principles of CST we have learned about so far? Please pick one to explain.  Dignity of work: Human work is sharing in God’s work Human work has sacred dignity that must be respected Because of this: Human work should contribute to the goodness in the world (not detract) Workers must be treated with dignity by their employers Workers must be treated with dignity by other workers 5. DIGNITY OF Rights of workers must be respected by business owners & society WORK & RIGHTS OF WORKERS Rights of Workers: ○To participate in ownership, decision making, profits, etc. where they work ○To rest from work ○“Women have an important contribution to make in society, including the workplace. They should not be discriminated against in the workplace. They should receive equal pay and benefits.”  ✔Look at the tags on an items of clothing you are wearing today. ✔Share the names of the brands & companies with your partner. ✔Take 5-10 minutes to research whether the company has an ethics policy regarding the rights of workers. Our Ethical Ratings | Ethical Consumer. ✔Jot down your findings in your notebook & be prepared to share out  ✔After having completed this activity what are your thoughts on your purchasing habits? ✔ ✔What is required to ensure rights of workers around the world?  6. From St. Pope John Paul II in On Social SOLIDARI Concern (Sollicitudo Rei Socialis) TY Definition: union of one’s heart and mind with all people Solidarity is “not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the Leads to the just distribution of misfortunes of so many people, both near material goods and far. On the contrary, it is a firm and Creates bonds between persevering determination to commit opposing groups and nations oneself to the common good; that is to Leads to the spread of spiritual say to the good of all and of each goods such as friendship and individual, because we are all really prayer responsible for all.”  Examples: -The moral principle that large organizations and the USCCB does not governments should not take over decisions that choose which music is can be carried out by individuals and local played at every parish organizations The US government -And that large corporations and governments have provides health care the responsibility to support the good of human for veterans beings, families, and local communities. SUBSIDIARITY  How do you care for our environment in your BELL daily actions? WORK How could you be more conscientious about your carbon footprint?  7. CARE FOR GOD’S CREATION We are called to protect people and the planet, living our faith in relationship with all of God’s creation. This environmental challenge has fundamental moral and ethical dimensions that cannot be ignored. Pope Francis: Environmental destruction is the result of an unjust economy. What are examples that support this perspective of the connection between unjust economic practices and environmental destruction?  Stewardship: the careful and responsible management of someone or something that has been entrusted to a person's care What are examples of stewardship lived out in… at T-G? in Minneapolis? in your life?  ASSESS YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT USING ONE (OR MORE!) OF THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES: Conservation.org ISCFC (Advanced Calculator) Global Footprint Network The Nature Conservancy *If you finish early, use a second website and compare your results  What surprised you about this activity? What are the major lifestyle factors that contributed to your carbon footprint? If you had time to do more than one, were your scores different? What might have contributed to that?