TWELVE PRINCIPLES
OF
CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING
Social Teachings of the Church
CHURCH WORLD
GOSPEL CULTURE
FAITH JUSTICE
Social Social
Teachings Problems
1. What should be 1. What is
(Rights & Duties;
Common Good)
2. Human Dignity: Person 2. Actual Poverty:
“Gloria Del Homo Vivens” material & spiritual
3. Faith & Justice towards 3. World’s Justice,
Peace and Development; peace and development;
integral Evangelization secular order
1. Human Dignity and Equality
every person created in the image
of God
equal in dignity, regardless of sex,
race, religion, etc.
dignity of conscience and its
freedom of choice
Human
Dignity
Towards a Culture of Life, a Culture of Human Rights, and a Culture of Peace
2. Respect for Human Life
> from the moment of conception
to natural death
> at every stage of growth and
decline
> a culture of life vs. a culture
of death
3. Promotion of Human Rights
universal, inviolable, inalienable
reciprocity of rights and duties
for justice and peace
PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND INSTRUMENTAL RIGHTS
WITH CORRESPONDING DUTIES:
AN INTERPRETATION OF PACEM IN TERRIS
4. Common Good
> sum of social conditions that
enable persons to achieve
their full human potential
> interdependence
> universal common good
5. Association and Participation
> man as a social being,
in community
> stability and rights of the family
> right and duty to participate
in society
CHURCH WORLD
Role of
Catholic
Laity
FAITH
CULTURE
SPIRITUALITY
SOCIETY
THEOLOGY Partisan
POLITICS
Politics
PHILOSOPHY ECONOMICS
JUSTICE HISTORY
MORALS
Separation
of Church
and State
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD:
Contextualizing the Involvement of Church Leaders and Laity
6. Subsidiarity
limits to government
role of intermediary and voluntary
organizations
Civil Society and cultural values
7. Role of Public Authorities
> subject to God’s moral order
> purpose is to attain the
common good
> towards a democratic system
DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS
SUSTAINABLE III
DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC
GROWTH
II
Economic Development
BASIC I
NEEDS
(Social
Development)
HUMAN CULTURE PEACE
RIGHTS OF BUILDING
PEACE-MAKING PEACE PROCESS
AND
DEMOCRACY
PASTORAL HORIZONS FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT
8. Dignity of Human Labor
homo faber as co-creator
right to work, to fair wages,
to join unions
agrarian reform: land to the tiller
9. Universal Destination of Goods
> use and limits of private
property
> conservation of the
environment
> stewardship
10. Preferential Option for the Poor
Gospel option (Mt. 25:31-46)
counter-balance to inequalities
in society
Church of the Poor
11. Solidarity
> solidary humanism
> oneness with other sectors,
classes, peoples
> globalization without
marginalization
12. Promotion of Peace
fruit of justice and love, in truth
and freedom
dialogue towards a culture
of peace
forgiveness and reconciliation
towards a civilization of love
I Social
Continuum
III Economic II Political
Continuum Personal & Family Continuum
Integrity
Human Rights
Environmental &
Spirituality
Protection St
ew Democracy
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sh sti
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CULTURE
OF PEACE Com
p assi
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tiv nc
Ac iole
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Poverty
Dialogue
Disarmament & No
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Eradication
Cessation of
Hostilities
Intercultural
Understanding &
Solidarity
Promoting a Culture of Peace
(Six Dimensions and Operative Values)
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References:
1. Pope John XXIII. On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice,
Charity and Liberty (Pacem in Terris). 1963.
2. Vatican II, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World
(Gaudium et Spes). 1965.
3. _______, Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae). 1965.
4. _______, Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian
Religious (Nostra Aetate). 1965.
5. Catechism of the Catholic Church. ECCCE and Word & Life Publications,
Manila. 1994.
6. Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Compendium of the Social
Doctrine of the Church. Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Vatican, 2004.
7. ______. The Social Agenda: A collection of Magisterial Texts. Libreria
Editrice Vaticana. Vatican, 2000.
