Catholic Social Teaching
Published on Mar 16, 2016
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This first Catholic Social Teaching is simple to understand. No matter who you are, what you do, and what you look like, everyone should be treated equally no matter what. God created all of us to his liking because each and every one of us is special in our own way. As Catholics who follow these seven teachings, we should love our enemies, friends, and neighbors as brothers and sisters of God.
"Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God’s creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect. (7/17/13)" -Pope Francis
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SECOND TEACHING
WE ARE CALLED TO LIVE AS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
This teaching is all about building a community between our neighbors and to be a big family as children of God. This can be done by following all of God's laws in our everyday lives and spreading them to everyone else in our Catholic community. We are called to be there for anyone and to care for those who need it most.
"What is God’s plan? It is to make of us all a single family of his children, in which each person feels that God is close and feels loved by him, as in the Gospel parable, feels the warmth of being God’s family. The Church is rooted in this great plan. . . . The Church is born from God’s wish to call all people to communion with him, to friendship with him, indeed, to share in his own divine life as his sons and daughters...(5/29/13)" -Pope Francis
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THIRD TEACHING
RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
This next teaching should relate to everyone and not just those who have power. All people should have equal rights and should be able to have the same rights and responsibilities any other person has wether you're poor, disadvantaged, or even wealthy. There are certain essential things anyone should be able to own. For example, food, clothes, a home, and medical care.
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"What we are called to respect in each person is first of all his life, his physical integrity, his dignity and the rights deriving from that dignity, his reputation, his property, his ethnic and cultural identity, his ideas and his political choices. We are therefore called to think, speak and write respectfully of the other, not only in his presence, but always and everywhere, avoiding unfair criticism or defamation. Families, schools, religious teaching and all forms of media have a role to play in achieving this goal. (7/10/13)" -Pope Francis
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FOURTH TEACHING
WE ARE CALLED TO STEWARDSHIP
The fourth teaching is something a lot of us today don't follow as much as we should. All animals, humans, and anything with life on earth are created by God. We are called to take care of them to keep those gifts from God to stay on this earth along with us. This means to help animals or people in need and to never litter or hurt wildlife.
"The vocation of being a "protector", however, is not just something involving us Christians alone; it also has a prior dimension which is simply human, involving everyone. It means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us. It means respecting each of God’s creatures and respecting the environment in which we live. (3/19/13)" -Pope Francis
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In our society today, there are almost more poor people than wealthy people so those who have more should always give them respect and share their goods with the people who have less.
"We are called not only to respect the natural environment, but also to show respect for, and solidarity with, all the members of our human family. These two dimensions are closely related; today we are suffering from a crisis which is not only about the just management of economic resources, but also about concern for human resources, for the needs of our brothers and sisters living in extreme poverty, and especially for the many children in our world lacking adequate education, health care and nutrition...(6/5/13, Environment)" -Pope Francis
For all the people who have the ability to work, they must be in a safe environment and deserve to be able to have flexible hours and good money for what they do. Some people may not have anything but a job and if they want to work all day then they should be paid for everything they put their effort into. If it wasn't for the workers who help God create our world, many of the things we have today wouldn't even be here.
"I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected. (4/28/13, Regina Caeli)" -Pope Francis
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THE SEVENTH TEACHING
SOLIDARITY
We all must live as a family of God and work together in order for all of us to survive as one. This means to love everyone around us and to stick together through everything. Although we may not like everyone as much as we should, God has called us to love our enemies the most along with all of our friends and family.
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"Let us remember Paul VI’s words: “For the Catholic Church, no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is far away” (Homily for the closing of the Second Vatican Council, 8 December 1965). Indeed, we are a single human family that is journeying on toward unity, making the most of solidarity and dialogue among peoples in the multiplicity of differences. (5/24/13)" -Pope Francis
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