Social Justice Semester 1 Final

What is the foundational principle of social justice according to the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops?

The dignity of the human person

According to the USCCB what is the central institution that must be supported and strengthened not undermined?

Marriage and the family

According to the USCCB what is the primary right that must be protected above all other rights?

Life

When there is a question in defending the rights of individuals, who has a claim to especial consideration according to the USCCB?

Poor and vulnerable

 In order, what are the seven themes of Catholic social justice?

1. Dignity of the human person

2. Marriage and the family 

3. Rights and Respect

4. Care for The poor and the vulnerable

5. Work

6. Solidarity

7. Care for God's creation

Equal Dignity

Everyone is made by God in His Image, made very good, made with equal dignity that cannot be taken away and must be recognized; everyone has different God-given talents to work with others and contribute in their own unique way

Equal treatment

 Everyone treated the exact same. Ie, giving everyone wheelchairs, even if they can walk

Explain the idea of not judging others and calling each other on to deeper holiness.

Our job to call people onto a deeper holiness by observing and judging their actions

Equality and Differences Among Men

• Created in God’s image

• Equal dignity

• Man needs others to thrive

• Social creatures

• Sinful inequalities

Which was the first organization to discuss social justice?

The church

Who was the first pope to write about it?

Pope Leo XIII

When was it written?

1891

What were some of the encyclicals that addressed social justice?

• Pope Pius XI - Quadragesimo Ano

• Pope John XXIII - Mater et Magistra AND Pacem in Terris

• Pope Paul VI - Populorum Progressio

Does the Church ever use the term “social justice?”

Catholic Social Justice = Catholic Social Doctrine

List the four modern tendencies of modern culture according to Christopher Dawkins.

1. Loss of absolute truth

2. The fragmentation of important social relationships

3. Overemphasis on the visible

4. Easily seduced by utopianism

Ockham

God is not a loving father; god=arbitrary law giver

Luther

No need for church; focus on FAITH ALONE

Kant

shift to science or REASON ALONE

Emerson/Rousseau

romanticism (FEELINGS ALONE)

Nietzsche

relativism (GOD IS DEAD) and nothing is true

Reformation

No need for Church; leads to focus on Scripture alone

Enlightenment

The most important part of you is the brain and logic and reason

Romanticism

Most important part of you is the heart and emotions and feelings and the world needs to get together and feel to get to a utopian world

Relativism

Will to power, no moral common telos or direction to society

Communism

Everything is publicly owned, and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs

Socialism

 Government and state controls/ owns the means of production

Marxism

Rooted in God is dead; based on materialism; the idea of God has been used to keep people from realizing their true reality

Capitalism

 Trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than by the state

Anarchy

Skeptical of authority; calls for abolition of the state, which it holds to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful

Authoritarianism

Enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom

The three ways we know life begins at conception

1. Alive: takes in nutrients and grows

2. Human: two human parents and human DNA

3. Whole human organisms: with enough time, environment, etc. they will grow to humans

Know two philosophies for why all human beings are ensouled beings from the moment of conception

1. Rationality: our rationality makes us distinct

2. One cannot give what one does not have: person at end of life is a human, but nothing was added to make it a person, it has to be a person from the beginning

Who usually has abortions

Women usually age 20-29

3-4 Weeks

Heart is beating with its own blood

5 weeks

eyes, ears, and tongue formed

6 weeks

fetus has brain waves that that can be measured with

8 weeks

swimming and swallowing

10-12 weeks

organs formed

12 weeks

sex can be determined/ vocal chords and taste buds

14 weeks

Pain and nerves

16 weeks

Mother can feel the baby

20 weeks

Hear the mother’s voice and react to stimuli

23 weeks

Viability

Roe V Wade

states can’t outlaw abortion in the first two trimesters

Doe v Bolton

“health” of the mother can include any factor: social, emotional, etc.

Planned Parenthood v Casey

No spousal notification

Gonzales v Carhart

Banned intact Dilation and Extraction abortions with an exception for life of the mother

Dobbs v Jackson

Decision is up to the states

Rights

Goods that are owed to us

Negative rights

The view that one’s rights come from God, nature, or the natural law

Positive rights

The view that one’s rights come from the government

Responsibility

The ability to be trusted or depended on for an office or an action

Duty

“Something that is due”, “obligatory service” “something that one is bound to perform or to avoid”

Poor

Lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in society

Justice

The virtue that refers to the steady and lasting willingness to give to God and to others what belongs to them

Poverty

The condition of want, experienced by those who are poor, for whom Christ had a special love

Vulnerable

In need of special care, support, or protection because of age, disability, or risk of abuse/ neglect

Natural law

An objective order established by God that determines the requirements for people to thrive and reach fulfillments. Things that we can know naturally without divine revelation

Right to excess

The right to possess extravagantly more than one needs

Solidarity

A firm and preserving determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say, to the good of all

Subsidiarity

An organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest, or least centralized competent authority

Universal destination of goods

The idea that created goods of the earth are for and benefit everyone, not just a small segment of population

Church teaching on stem cell research

Adult stem cell research is good, but embryonic is bad

Signs of Domestic Abuse

• Tension Building

• The incident

• Reconciliation

• Back to calm

Signs of elder abuse

• Physical abuse

• Abandonment

• Isolation

• Neglect

• Financial issues

• abduction

• Emotional

Types of Child Abuse

• Physical

• Sexual

• Neglect

• Emotional

Human Slavery Signs

• Sex Trafficking

• Labor Trafficking

• Forced Marriage

• Child soldiers

• Domestic Servitude

When are Catholics obligated to have medical procedures?

When it’s not aggressive (FOOD, Water. Air)

Definition of Marriage

Total comprehensive union (goods, acts, commitments)

Three reasons government has an interest in marriage

1. Anthropological Truth (men and women r distinct and complementary)

2. Biological Fact (need a woman and man to create)

3. Social reality (Children need a mom and dad)

Marriage according to the church

Exclusive partnership for life between man and woman

Rights

Goods owed to us BY NATURE

WHAT IS NOT A HUMAN RIGHT?

Children

Basic rights for workers

Productive work

Private property

workers unions

decent working conditions

Empathy

Feeling for people, and solidarity

Sympathy

Sort of seeing problems and feeling bad

Stewardship

Taking care of something as your own, when ultimately it is not

Three reasons people traditionally hates social justice

1. Big government

2. Moral relativism

3. Economic Redistribution

Why do people think social Justice is misunderstood?

1. Very broad- covers too much

2. Abstract- it depends on what

3. Abused- definitions have been twisted

Three factors that matter when raising children

1. Gender- male and female

2. Stability- not divorced

3. Biology

Three historical norms of marriage

1. Sexually exclusive

2. Monogamous

3. Permanent

List the distinguishing factors of the marital community

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE RELATIONSHIP

1. Act- union of mind, body, soul, heart —> sexual intercourse

2. Goods- children

3. Commitment- Permanent and exclusive

DESCRIBE SUBSIDIARITY

Leaving decision-making and power to the lowest possible person