Integral Human Development Caritas In Veritate

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INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

The Guarantee of Catholicity

Mission Statement of the Archdiocese of Port of SpainWe are the People of God in

Trinidad and Tobago, building the Civilization of Love - reconciliation with God, neighbour, creation and self - through:

• The New Evangelization• Revitalizing Catholic Culture and Identity• Regenerating the Moral and Spiritual

Values of our Society

Pope Paul VI (1963 - 1978)

Populorum Progressio (1967) Outlined a charter for the progress of

peoples Has a developmental framework [from

less human to more human] Begins at the individual human, and

embraces the nation and the community of nations.

Underlying metaphor or theme is the journey.

Pope Paul VI (1963 - 1978) Civilizations are born, develop and die.

But humanity is advancing along the path of history like the waves of a rising tide encroaching gradually on from past generations, and we have benefited from the work of our contemporaries: for this reason we have obligations towards all, and we cannot refuse to interest ourselves in those who will come after us to enlarge the human family. The reality of human solidarity, which is a benefit for us, also imposes a duty.

AUTHENTIC, INTEGRAL, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

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AUTHENTIC, INTEGRAL, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Pope Paul VI

Development cannot be limited to mere economic growth. In order to be authentic, it must be complete: integral, that is, it has to promote the good of every person and of the whole person…What we hold important is the human, each person and each group of people, and we even include the whole of humanity". (Populorum Progressio #14)

Pope Paul VI

What must be aimed at is complete humanism. And what is that if not the fully-rounded development of the whole person and of all people? An isolated humanism is an inhuman humanism". There is no true humanism but that which is open to the Absolute and is conscious of a vocation which gives human life its true meaning. (Populorum Progressio # 42)

Pope Paul VI

Development is the new name for Peace (Populorum

Progressio #14)

Pope Benedict XVI (2005 )

Caritas in Veritate (2009)

Overview of Encyclical

Introduction Chapter One: The Message of

Populorum Progressio Chapter Two: Human Development in

Our Time Chapter Three: Fraternity, Economic

Development and Civil Society Chapter Four: The Development of

People, Rights and Duties, the Environment

Chapter Five: The Cooperation of the Human Family

Chapter Six: The Development of Peoples and Technology

Conclusion

Elevation of Populorum Progressio

I express my conviction that Populorum Progressio deserves to be considered “the Rerum Novarum of the present age”, shedding light upon humanity's journey towards unity (#8).

Pope Leo XII

Rerum Novarum 1891 First Encyclical dedicated to the Social

context Elaborated the rights of the workers A Pope intervened on behalf of the

workers It began a tradition that has been

celebrated at each significant anniversary

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1. All people feel the interior impulse to love authentically: love and truth never abandon them completely, because these are the vocation planted by God in the heart and mind of every human person. .. In Christ, charity in truth becomes the Face of his Person, a vocation for us to love our brothers and sisters in the truth of his plan. Indeed, he himself is the Truth (cf. Jn 14:6).

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16. Paul VI taught that progress, in its origin and essence, is first and foremost a vocation: “in the design of God, every person is called upon to develop and fulfill himself, for every life is a vocation .” This is what gives legitimacy to the Church's involvement in the whole question of development.

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17. To regard development as a vocation is to recognize, on the one hand, that it derives from a transcendent call, and on the other hand that it is incapable, on its own, of supplying its ultimate meaning. Not without reason the word “vocation” is also found in another passage of the Encyclical, where we read: “There is no true humanism but that which is open to the Absolute, and is conscious of a vocation which gives human life its true meaning.”

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17. A vocation is a call that requires a free and responsible answer. Integral human development presupposes the responsible freedom of the individual and of peoples: no structure can guarantee this development over and above human responsibility.

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18. Besides requiring freedom, integral human development as a vocation also demands respect for its truth. The vocation to progress drives us to “do more, know more and have more in order to be more”. But herein lies the problem: what does it mean “to be more”? Paul VI answers the question by indicating the essential quality of “authentic” development: it must be “integral, that is, it has to promote the good of every man and of the whole man”. 22

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18. Amid the various competing anthropological visions put forward in today's society, even more so than in Paul VI's time, the Christian vision has the particular characteristic of asserting and justifying the unconditional value of the human person and the meaning of his growth. The Christian vocation to development helps to promote the advancement of all men and of the whole man. As Paul VI wrote: “What we hold important is man, each man and each group of men, and we even include the whole of humanity”. 23

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19. Finally, the vision of development as a vocation brings with it the central place of charity within that development . .. first of all, in the will, which often neglects the duties of solidarity; secondly in thinking, which does not always give proper direction to the will. Hence, in the pursuit of development, there is a need for “the deep thought and reflection of wise men in search of a new humanism which will enable modern man to find himself anew”

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19. As society becomes ever more globalized, it makes us neighbours but does not make us brothers. Reason, by itself, is capable of grasping the equality between men and of giving stability to their civic coexistence, but it cannot establish fraternity. This originates in a transcendent vocation from God the Father, who loved us first, teaching us through the Son what fraternal charity is.

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Integral Human Development: The first is that the whole Church, in all her being

and acting — when she proclaims, when she celebrates, when she performs works of charity — is engaged in promoting integral human development.

The second truth is that authentic human development concerns the whole of the person in every single dimension

Moreover, such development requires a transcendent vision of the person, it needs God: without him, development is either denied, or entrusted exclusively to man, who falls into the trap of thinking he can bring about his own salvation, and ends up promoting a dehumanized form of development (#11).

Pope Paul VI-Less Human Conditions

The lack of material necessities for those who are without the minimum essential for life,

The moral deficiencies of those who are mutilated by selfishness.

Oppressive social structures, whether due to the abuses of ownership or to the abuses of power, to the exploitation of workers or to unjust transactions. 27

Pope Paul VI-More human

the passage from misery towards the possession of necessities,

victory over social scourges, the growth of knowledge, the

acquisition of culture. increased esteem for the dignity of

others, the turning toward the spirit of poverty,

[18] cooperation for the common good, the will and desire for peace.

Pope Paul VI-More Human

The acknowledgment by man of supreme values, and of God their source and their finality.

Faith, a gift of God accepted by the good will of man, and unity in the charity of Christ, Who calls us all to share as sons in the life of the living God, the Father of all men.

Pope Paul VI

The movement from less human to more human values gives a dynamic approach to ethics

Ethics is no longer about right and/or wrong but a pilgrimage to “more human values”.

Integral human Development is salvation

Paul VI, presenting the various levels in the process of human development, placed at the summit, after mentioning faith, “unity in the charity of Christ who calls us all to share as sons in the life of the living God, the Father of all”.

This is authentic humanism and Christian Vision of salvation

Catholicity

Now, turning to the second aspect of catholicity, we must ask whether there is anything in it corresponding to depth. If so, how deep are its roots in the world? Presenting a basic Catholic answer to this question, Yves Congar writes: 'The fullness that is in Christ does not communicate itself to an empty and inert humanity. It has a source of richness likewise in human beings or in human nature.'1 According to the Catholic understanding, the Spirit of God does not merely hover above the world, nor does it simply touch the world as a tangent touches a circle, but it reaches into the depths. Divine life, when it enters the human realm, penetrates not only the spiritual faculties of intellect and will, but the person's whole being, including the sensory and bodily aspects (Dulles, The Catholicity of the Church, 1987. 48)

Catholicity

The guarantee of an authentic anthropology.

Two threats to authentic Anthropology Plagiarism Manichaeanism/ Jansenism

Pelagianism,

The Pelagian, denying that original sin makes us inwardly corrupt, regards human nature in its present condition as sound and healthy. Hence it follows that if we are sinful, this is the result of our own free activity, and that the same freedom makes us capable of rising again. Grace is understood as a set of favourable conditions, such as the good example and admonition that come from other human beings. Conversely, original sin, if the term is used at all, means the bad example and moral influence of Adam or our predecessors. According to the Pelagian, the justified person is inherently righteous and does not need to rely on the merits of Christ as imputed. Finally, the virtuous person can perform good and meritorious works by the powers of unaided nature.. (Dulles, 49)

Manichaeanism

The second major tendency is the Manichaean, which has its analogues in Jansenius (Cornelius Jansen). In reaction against Pelagianizing movements, this tendency stresses the discontinuities. In the old Manichaeanism nature itself was regarded as evil and as produced by an evil demiurge rather than by the God of Jesus Christ. In its Protestant and Jansenist forms, this tendency is expressed in the view that human nature, since the Fall, is irreparably corrupt and incapable of doing anything but sin.2 The Christian life therefore consists in allowing the sufferings of Jesus Christ to serve as a substitute for the meritorious works

Catholicity

The third tendency, proposed most officially by the Council of Trent in its Decree on Justification (1547), may be called the Catholic position. Striking a middle path between the other two, this position emphasizes, as catholicity always does, continuity within discontinuity. Nature is fundamentally good, and remains so, even though it is wounded by the effects of original sin. The human person is and remains an image of God. Retaining the essential powers of intelligence and free will, the sinner is able to act responsibly, and does not necessarily sin (as some Protestants held) in every act. (Dulles, 50)

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Authentic integral human development is the depth and guarantee of Catholicity.