Social Justice
Catholic Themes
Social Justice concerns itself with our responsibility to ensure that all people are given a ‘far go’. Some issues that social justice aims to cover are:
- Poverty
- Child Labourer
- Refugees
- Homelessness
- Hunger
Dignity of the Human Person
Dignity is human dignity which is the foundation of Catholic Social Teaching. Human Dignity is self respect and the ability to have pride for those around you.
Common Good and Community
Humans are sacred and social, we live and achieve together, and all humans should be valued in the wider community.
Option for the Poor
Society must consider and help the poor in society; governments especially must help the poor.
Questions
1. School Community
2. School Community is sacred because it’s catholic and it’s social because many people go there.
3. You feel belonging or part of something.
4. Our community donates clothes, living needs and money.
Rights and Responsibilities
- Every person has a fundamental right to life and a right to those things required for human decency – starting with food, shelter and clothing, employment, health care, and education.
Corresponding to these rights are duties and responsibilities -- to one another, to our families, and to the larger society.
Role of Government and Subsidiary
- All people have a right and a responsibility to participate in political institutions so that government can achieve its proper goals.
Economic Justice
- All workers have a right to productive work, to decent and fair wages, and to safe working conditions.
- They also have a fundamental right to organize and join unions.
- People have a right to economic initiative and private property, but these rights have limits.
- No one is allowed to a mass excessive wealth when others lack the basic necessities of life.
Stewardship of God’s creation
- Social Mortgage guides our use of the worlds good value and allows us to have responsibility to care for our values as leaders of stewardshop and to trust each other
Promotion of Peace and Disarmament
- The absence of war is not just peace, it involves respect for others and confidence to be built among other people and nations. It also invovles collaborating and binding agreements
Participation
Participation is about demanding justice and requiring human dignity for all people so that tey are assured a min. level of participation in their local community.
Global Solidarity and Development
Full Human development must involve authentic development. It aims to promote respect and personal, social, economic and political rights for the nations and people. It cannot involve the extremists of underdevelopment on one hand and the super development on the other.
