Charity, Justice,

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Charity, Justice, Relationships Lead to Doing
Justice Through Catholic Social Teaching

• Charity Stems From Justice
• The obligation to perform acts of charity is
  taught both by Gods revelation and by reason.
• Reason tells us that we ought to love our
  neighbors, since they are children of God they
  are our brothers and sisters, members of the same
  human family and have needs the same as
  ourselves. Our faith tells we are to do what
  Jesus taught us through the Gospels and the
  Scriptures to love one another.
• Biblical Justice/Social Justice is right
  relationship with God, with People and with Gods
  Creation.
• Injustice occurs whenever any of those
  relationships are broken.
• Social Justice is Love That Does Justice.

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Justice is Intimately Connected to the Liturgy of
the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist

• The celebration of the Eucharist and the liturgy
  of the Word are intimately connected to lead us
  to Christ.
• Through the liturgy of the word we hear God
  speaking to us and telling us how we are to live
  our lives in peace and justice.
• How we are to be in relationship with each other
  and with our brothers and sisters throughout the
  world especially the poor, Gods special concern.
  
• We all become one in and with Christ. We become
  the Word of God made flesh. We are united as one
  people. We are called to do justice.

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Catholic Social Teaching

• Catholic Social Teaching is part of the moral
  teaching of the Church
• It is grouped into seven major themes or
  principles.
• Based on Scripture, Tradition , Papal encyclicals
  Bishops Statements and Social documents of the
  Church.
• They serve as moral guideposts by which Catholic
  Christians make decisions about the organization
  of their government, social and economic systems
  and their relationships to all others.
• Catholic Social Teaching applies gospel values to
  social systems

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Life and Dignity of the Human Person

• The human person is central, the clearest
  reflection of God among us.
• Each person possesses a basic dignity that comes
  from God, not from race or gender, age or
  economic status.
• The test of every institution or policy is
  whether it enhances or threatens human life and
  human dignity.
• We believe people are more important than things.

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Family, Community the Common Good

• The human person is both sacred and social.
• We realize our dignity and the rights in
  relationship with others in community.
• No community is more central than the family -
  the basic cell of society.
• We are one body when one suffers we all
  suffer.
• Our participation in the up building of society
  is both a right and an obligation.

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Rights Responsibilities

• People have a fundamental right to life, food,
  shelter, health care, education, and employment.
• All people have a right to participate in
  decisions that affect their lives.
• Corresponding to these rights are duties and
  responsibilities to respect the rights of others
  in the wider society and to work for the common
  good.
• Any denial of these rights harms the persons and
  wounds the community.

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Preferential Option for the Poor Vulnerable

• We are concerned with all in society but we give
  preferential for the most vulnerable in our
  society.
• Our Lord had a special love for the poor. He
  showed mercy for the poor and vulnerable.
• The moral test of a society is how it treats its
  most vulnerable members.
• The poor have the most urgent moral claim on the
  conscience of the nation.
• We are called to look at public policy decisions
  in terms of how they affect the poor.
• The overarching Gospel principle is the
  obligation to attend to the poor. - the least of
  these

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Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers

• People have the right to decent and productive
  work, fair wages, to form and join unions,
  private property, and economic initiative.
• The economy exists to serve the people, not the
  other way around.
• Work is more than a way to make a living it is a
  vocation, a participation in creation.
• We must assist people to get work and improve
  wages for people who are in poverty.

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Solidarity

• We are one human family and are interdependent.
• Our responsibilities to each other cross
  national, racial. Economic, and ideological
  differences.
• We are called to work globally for justice.
• Loving our neighbor has global dimensions in an
  interdependent world.
• Solidarity calls us to stand united with the poor
  and the powerless as our own brothers and
  sisters.
• All human beings are brothers and sisters. We
  are one family of God and are responsible for
  each other.
• All boundaries in the world are artificial. When
  we look at our world from space we see Gods
  created world with out national lines. We see
  one world where all people live.

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Care for God's Creation

• On a planet conflicted over environmental issues,
  the Catholic tradition insists that we show our
  respect for the Creator by our stewardship of
  creation.
• Care for the earth is not just an earth day
  slogan, it is a requirement of our faith.
• We are called to protect people and the planet,
  living our faith in relationship with all of
  God's creation.
• We must share and care for the resources of the
  world. If we share there is enough for all of
  us. We have the responsibility to be involved in
  the issues of ecology. We must leave the world
  for future generations.

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A Call to Peace and Non-Violence

• No society can live in peace with itself, or with
  the world, without a full awareness of the worth
  and dignity of every human person, and of the
  sacredness of all human life (Jas. 41-2).
• When we accept violence in any form as
  commonplace, our sensitivities become dulled and
  war can be taken for granted..
• Violence has many faces oppression of the poor,
  deprivation of basic human rights, economic
  exploitation, sexual exploitation and
  pornography, neglect or abuse of the aged and the
  helpless, and innumerable other acts of
  inhumanity.
• For men and women of faith, peace will imply a
  right relationship with God, which entails
  forgiveness, reconciliation, and union. The
  Challenge of Peace
• The world will never be the dwelling place of
  peace, till peace has found a home in the heart
  of each and every man, till every man preserves
  in himself the order ordained by God to be
  preserved. Pacem en Terris

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Family, Community the Common Good

• The human person is both sacred and social.
• We realize our dignity and the rights in
  relationship with others in community.
• No community is more central than the family -
  the basic cell of society.
• We are one body when one suffers we all
  suffer.
• Our participation in the up building of society
  is both a right and an obligation.