Catholic Social Teaching: Key Concepts and Principles
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- **VOC**
- - **Justice**- The cardinal moral virtue that consists of the firm will to give God & neighbor their due
- - **Common Good**- The sum total of all social conditions which allow people, either as groups or individuals, reach their fulfillment more fully % easily
- - **Social Teaching**- the subset of moral theology which is articulated when the church interprets events in the course of history with the help of the Holy Spirit and Revelation
- - **Social Sin**- The effect that every personal sin has on other; the collectivity of such sins which creates “structures of sin”
- - **Natural Law**- Moral knowledge that is written in every human heart & is “co-natural” with human nature
- - **Solidarity**- Virtue of social charity, friendship & responsibility whereby interdependence among all people is recognized
- - **Subsidiarity**- The moral principle that a group of a larger size should not interfere with responsibilities that can be administered by individuals or smaller groups.
- - **Stewardship**- The proper use of God’s gifts; the care for creation that will allow natural resources to flourish
- - **Personalistic Norm**- A person is to be treated as a unique individuals & never as a means to another’s end.
- - **Euthanasia**- Any act or omission which, of itself or by intention, causes death in order to eliminate suffering
- - **Human Rights**- The specific things due or “owed” to a creature created in the Imago Dei.
- - **Civil Allegiance**- Duty of respect & obedience (ie:”listening) owed by every person to the state of which he or she is a member
- - **Conscientious Objection**- The moral right to refuse to follow laws or other social constructs based on moral or religious grounds
- - **Preferential Option**-giving priority to the needs of the poor & committing to transform unjust social structures
- - **Jubilee Year**- Every 50th year as a time of liberation from servitude and debt in the Law of Israel
- - **Works of Mercy**- outlined by Jesus in Matt. 25, these charitable actions provide for the physical and spiritual needs of others
- - **Universal Destination of Goods**- All the goods of the earth should be distributed so as to ensure the freedom and dignity of all persons
- - **Right to Property**- In theology, the right to exercise stewardship over a particular part of creation
- **Three Benefits of Work**- Unknown
- - **Economy**- Greek “homebudget” the measure of how well the human family can thrive according to equal access to resources
- - **Discernment**- to distinguish between actions that are bad, good, better and best
- - **Migrant**- one who leaves their native land in order to find a dignified life in a new land
- - **Peace**- the order of tranquility that results from justices and love
- - **Non-Violence** - the theory or practice of using peaceful means and refraining from the force to bring about social change
- - **Prejudice**- a preconceived opinion formulated without consideration of known factors usually based on erroneous knowledge
- - **Scandal**- attitudes or behaviors that lead another to sin
- - **Creation**- Both the natural and supernatural universe as related to God as the source of its very being and continual existence
- - **Laudato Si**- Encyclical written by Pope Francis to address stewardship for creation as humanity’s common home
- - **Materialistic Consumerism**- A particular tendency to not only base the content of life on the goods and services exchanged but also to see them as an end in themselves
- - **Dignified Simplicity**- phrase of Vatican 2 which indicates the way a christian is called to live and worship.
- **Capitalism**- Solidarity **Communism**- Subsidiarity **Socialism**-Stewardship