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Sep 14, 2017 · Tags: Catholic Social Teaching, Lesson Plans. CST 101 is a seven-part video series about Catholic social teaching principles, with accompanying discussion guides, posters and handouts, presented by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services.
Principles of Catholic Social Teaching (compiled by Fr Paul Devitt) Principle 1 Dignity of the Human Person. Belief in the inherent dignity of the human person is the foundation of all Catholic social teaching. Human life is sacred, and the dignity of the human person is the starting point for a moral vision for society.
Daily Readings. Listen to Podcasts. Watch our Videos. About USCCB. Catholic Social Teaching is an essential element of our faith, and emerges from the truth of what God has revealed to us about himself.
The Seven Principles of Catholic Social Teaching. Life and Dignity of the Human Person –. All people are sacred, made in the image and likeness of God. People do not lose dignity because of disability, poverty, age, lack of success, or race. This emphasizes people over things, being over having. Call to Family, Community, and Participation –.
Catholic social teaching is critical of modern social and political ideologies of the left and of the right, such as liberalism, communism, anarchism, feminism, atheism, socialism, fascism, capitalism, and Nazism, which have been condemned by several popes since the late nineteenth century.
Centesimus Annus (The Hundredth Year)—St. John Paul II, 1991. Veritatis splendor (The Splendor of Truth)—St. John Paul II, 1993. Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life)—St. John Paul II, 1995. Dignitas Personae (The Dignity of a Person)—Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 1998.
We will start by looking at the precursor – human dignity – and then the five principles of Catholic social teaching: Common good, universal destination of goods, subsidiarity, participation, and solidarity. Human Dignity. Underlying the entirety of the Catholic Church’s social teaching is a presupposition: Human dignity.
