Catholic social teaching

According to the Gospel, we must welcome the stranger. Catholic Social Teaching requires Catholics to care for and stand in soldiery with immigrants, both authorized and unauthorized, including unaccompanied immigrant children, refugees and asylum-seekers, those unnecessarily detained, and victims of human trafficking. The Catholic Updated Guide to Faithful Citizenship, emphasizes that people have the right to freely migrate. The Catholic Bishops of the United States and Mexico acknowledge globalization, or the interconnectedness and dependence between different countries because of technology and social media, as a factor for the acceptance and tolerance for migration (Catholic Updated Guide to Faithful Citizenship 40-41). There are also other…

theology and Catholic Social Teaching are two very important aspects of Catholicism, and are the basis of which we should live each day. Catholic Social Teaching is rooted in the love of God. God loves us, sent down His only Son, and gave us the Holy Spirit; we are called to use this as a lesson and to love one another as brothers and sisters under God. Catholic Social Teaching is a guide that teaches us and reminds us how to do so. There are seven distinct themes in Catholic Social Teaching…

Universal Basic income has direct impacts of several principles of Catholic Social Teaching and its potential to impact the social good. Intimate involvement with core values associated with the social good and individual responsibilities are prerequisite to understanding the impetus behind establishing a UBI. While further analysis is needed before it can be equated with increasing the common good of mankind, it does have several aspects that are aimed at improving the well-being of all,…

die each day from hunger alone. Controversy, there is an increasing accumulation of wealth and power, where about 500 of the world's billionaires have assets of 1.9 trillion dollars, a sum greater than the income of the poorest 170 countries in the world. As a result, thousands of people are trying to achieve and engage into social justice to help create…

Catholic social teaching is important within the Catholic Church. To understand the social teaching, you must have knowledge of what morals are, and how to obtain them. “Catholic social teaching is a central and essential element of our faith. Its roots are in the Hebrew prophets who announced God's special love for the poor and called God's people to a covenant of love and justice. It is a teaching founded on the life and words of Jesus Christ”( usccb.org) Social teaching comes from the truth…

will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” (John 6:51) When the sacrament of the Eucharist was first introduced, it was used by Jesus to present the disciples with the idea of God’s creation and how it manifested. The Catholic Church is calling for individuals to re-evaluate the Sacrament of Eucharist, as it is the foot hold to ecological conversion, which is …. During the Last Supper, Jesus reminded the disciples that it was their mandate to…

Pope Francis, the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church, is truly a one of a kind. On September 23, 2015, The Pope took on monumental step in our history and addressed congress. Throughout the Pope’s address he explained the importance of the Seven Themes of Catholic Social Teaching and how it relates to our daily lives and endeavors. Pope Francis starts off his address by , redefining congresses responsibilities to our nation. He begins with explaining congress's role in one of Seven Themes of…

In this analysis, I am choosing to write about my spirituality and religious beliefs. From a young age, Catholic values and morals were instilled in me by my parents and other family members and I did not seem to have any other choice besides blindly obeying. I was sent to parochial school starting at age three, where we all knew the Ten Commandments by the time we finished preschool and were finger-painting biblical stories during arts and crafts hour. Until my sophomore year of high school…

general principles of Catholic social thought (CST), aside from what could be considered the foundational principle of the dignity of human life, the principle of the preferential option for the poor is the cornerstone by which all the other points of social thought are held in comparison to. With respect to the teachings of the Church, an option for the poor and maligned closely matches the historical Jesus’ teachings concerning social thought in the Gospels. Mich lists seven themes concerning…

Unfortunately, these generalizations that the public oftentimes connects to traditional Catholics is not a caricature too far from the truth. For example, I belong to Old Saint Joseph’s, the oldest Roman Catholic Church in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. While I do appreciate this parish and have deep respect for its highly educated staff of socially conscious and progressive Jesuits, I struggle with the church’s lack of racial…