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Caritas in Veritate
Opening our minds to love,
Opening our love to truth
Prepared by: Ysabel Alexandra Herrera
What is it?
Encyclical, Pope Benedict XVI Second social encyclical Deus est Caritas
June 29, 2009 Continues tradition from Rerum Novarum Commemorates 40th Anniversary of Paul
VI’s Populorum Progressio (1967)
What is it?
THEME
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
Integral Human Development
Integral Human Development
Integral human development implies the advance towards the true good of every individual, community and society, in every single dimension of human life: social, economic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious.
MESSAGE FOR THE FEAST OF DEEPAVALI 20093, , Pontifical Council
Integral Human Development
“Development of the whole man and of all men" (PP, 42, Paul VI)
”From less human conditions to those which are more human" (PP, 20, Paul VI).
”Integral human development presupposes the responsible freedom of the individual and of peoples" (Caritas, 17).
Background: Populorum Progressio
Affirms the right of poor nations to full human development. Decries economic structures promoting inequality. Calls for
new international organizations and agreements
Background: Populorum Progressio
Poor nations --> current economic crisis Full human development --> caritas Structures of inequality --> sin, truth New international organizations -->
globalization based on caritas in veritate That is, love in the truth that we are all
interdependent
Recap
Caritas in Veritate: truth in love Recalls the global vision of Populorum
Progressio Three Ideas of Catholic Social Teaching
Common Good, Subsidiarity, Solidarity Option for the poor Integral Human Development
Caritas in Veritate: Content
God’s plan for us is to love our sisters and brothers Knowing the plan is Truth Natural Law
Knowledge and Praxis
Caritas in Veritate: Content
Everything is shaped by love Everything is directed toward love (2)
Caritas in Veritate: Content
A rejection of cultural relativism and ethical subjectivism
90% of Americans accept, at least in word, some form of relativism
Caritas in Veritate: Content
To love is to desire the person’s good and to take steps to secure it
Defines our common good
Cannot fail to assume the whole human family as a way to shape the earthly city (7)
Caritas in Veritate: Content
The risk for our time is that the de facto interdependence of people and nations is not matched by ethical interaction of conscience and minds that would give rise to truly human development. Only in charity, illumined by the light of reason and faith, is it possible to pursue development goals that possess a more humane and humanizing value (9)
Caritas in Veritate: Content
Progress is a vocation
“In the design of God, every man is called upon to develop and fulfill himself, for every life is a vocation” (16, quot. PP)
Caritas in Veritate: Content
VISION Goal of rescuing peoples, first and
foremost, from hunger, deprivation, endemic diseases and illiteracy. From the economic point of view, this meant their active participation on equal terms in economic process”
From the social point of view it meant their evolution into educated societies marked by solidarity.
From the political point of view it mean the consolidation of democratic regimes capable of ensuring freedom and peace. (21)
Primary capital to be safeguarded and valued is man, the human person in his or her integrity (25) Profit has a role, but a limited role (21) States ability to safeguard the poor has been
compromised by global economy Two-edge sword of outsourcing
Charity in truth combats the superdevelopment in economics, technology, and practical atheism
Integral human development fosters the interaction of the different levels of knowledge in order to promote the authentic development of peoples (30)
Moral evaluation and scientific research go hand in hand (31)
Human being is made for gift: transcendent dimension
Presumption of Original Sin:
Modern man sees himself as the sole author of himself, his life, and society (34)
Individualism of modernity
The economy has been included for some time in the list of areas where the effects of sin are most evident (34)
Market, in a climate of mutual trust, permits encounters between persons
While the market is subject to commutative justice (giving and receiving between parties in a transaction) the Church emphasizes that it is subject to distributive and social justice (35)
The logic of gift must find a place in market relations
Consider Bob’s Red Mill foods
Without gratuitousness there is no justice. Markets must permit free operation of
enterprises in conditions of equal opportunity Alongside profit, we allow mutualist enterprises and
pursuit of social ends
Profound new way of understanding business enterprises (40) Stakeholders: any one with a stake in the
success of the company• Not just stockholders
Globalization is not a fatalistic process of anonymous impersonal forces
Humanity is becoming increasingly interconnected as a cultural event with causes and effects (42) Should offer benefits Not victims but protagonists
Human solidarity imposes duties
Reality sees an acclimation for rights non-essential in nature while elementary and basic rights are being unacknowledged and violated A right to excess in advanced societies linked
to lack of food and water in poorer societies
Economy needs ethics to function correctly (45)
Man is created in the image of God
The economy is a human activity Not an anonymous process outside our
control
Development programmes must be based on the centrality of the human person as the subject primarily responsible for development (47)
Development must go hand in hand with a relationship to the environment (48) When viewed as the result of pure chance,
our sense of responsibility wanes
Nature expresses a design of love and truth Requires solidarity with developing countries
The way humanity treats the environment influences the way it treats itself and vice versa
The decisive issue of the overall moral tenor of society (51)
Thomas Aquinas St. Francis of Assissi
Theme of development can be identified with the inclusion in relation of all individuals and peoples within the one community of the human family, built in solidarity on the basis of fundamental values of justice and peace (54)
As a spiritual being, human beings are defined through interpersonal relations Rejects modern individualism
The development of peoples requires the recognition that the human race is a single family (53)
The unity of the human race in Christian revelation relies on a metaphysical interpretation of the human as relational (55)
But to offer this contribution there must be a place for God in the public realm Reason and faith purify each other (56)
Solutions to current economic crisis
Development aid for poor countries creates wealth for all (60)
Greater solidarity means greater access to education (61)
An ability to address migration (62) Full employment: right to work (63) Labour unions (64) Finance must be directed toward wealth
creation and development (65)
Globalization
Consumer has specific social responsibility Positive growth: consumers and their
associations (66)• Cooperative purchasing• Requires Market transparency
Globalization
A reform of the United Nations with real teeth To protect and give voice to poorer nations in
effective decision-making
Urgent need for a world political authority
Technology
Challenge of development is linked to technological progress (69) A profound human reality But must remember the hegemony of the
spirit over matter When efficiency and utility are the sole
criterion of truth then development is denied (70)
Technology
Entranced by an exclusive reliance on technology, reason without faith is doomed to flounder in an illusion of its own omnipotence. Faith without reason risks being cut off from everyday life. (74)
Technology
The social question has become a radically anthropological question:
How is life conceived? How is it manipulated as bio-technology
places human life increasingly under man’s control (75)
Is man the product of his own labor or does he depend on God? (74)
Technology
There cannot be holistic development and universal common good unless people’s spiritual and moral welfare is taken into account, considered in their entirety as body and soul (76)
Resurrection of the body
Conclusion
Christian humanism: Enkindles charity Takes lead from truth Both are lasting gifts from God
The End