CARITAS IN VERITATE (CHARITY IN TRUTH) BENEDICT XVI‚ 2009 This social encyclical tackles the interrelationship and complementarity between justice‚ love‚ and truth. Love must be the foundation of all our efforts to create a more just world: ‘charity demands justice’ but at the same time ‘charity transcends justice and completes it in the logic of giving and forgiving.’ However‚ Benedict XVI points out that sentimentality and emotionalism arise when charity/love is practiced without truth. He
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Catholic Social Teaching is a body of doctrine developed by the Catholic Church on matters of poverty and wealth‚ economics‚ social organizationand the role of the state. Its foundations are widely considered to have been laid by Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical letter Rerum Novarum‚ which advocated economic Distributism and condemned both Capitalism and Socialism‚ although its roots can be traced to the writings of Catholic thinkers such as St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo‚ and is also derived
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Pope Leo 13 had greatly effected and impacted the Church. He has been considered the founder of the Catholic Social Teaching. His changes effected not only the church‚ but working conditions in the past generations leading up until now. Pope Leo 13 had accomplished many things in his life such as‚ becoming Pope‚ justifying working conditions‚ and effecting the church and people of the Church in the past‚ the present‚ and the many generations ahead of us. After Vincenzo completed his early studies
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for the Requirement of the subject Theology 102: Church and Ecumenism. Paula Mae SP. Palma BSBA FM 1A March 8‚ 2013 B. Introduction Mystici Corporis Christi is a papal encyclical issued by Pope Pius XII during World War II on the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ. It is one of the more important encyclicals of Pope Pius XII‚ because of its topic‚ the Church‚ and because its Church concept was fully included in Lumen Gentium but also strongly debated during and after Vatican II. The
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Humanae Vitae - Encyclical Letter on the regulation of birth As a Roman Catholic‚ I have been raised to believe what the Church has taught for centuries. As we are living in Humanae Vitae‚ surely challenges will arise for some people in today’s society when they read this text. Although I had difficulty seeing one statement noted in the text the way in which the Church had‚ I found myself agreeing with the Pope in the problems presented in terms of today’s society. Beginning with the “problem
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St. John Vianney Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney St. John Vianney original name is Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney. He was born May 8‚ 1786 in the French town of Dardilly‚ and was baptized the same day. His parents are Matthieu Vianney and Marie Beluze. They had six children ‚of whom John was the fourth. His family were devout Catholics. They helped the poor and gave hospitality to St. Benedict Joseph Labre (he was passing through Dardilly on his pilgrimage to Rome). In 1790‚ during the French
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Saint Pope Pius X (born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto) was born on June 2‚ 1835 in Riese‚ Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia‚ Austrian Empire. (now Italy‚ Province of Treviso) He was born in a family of ten‚ three brothers and six sisters. At a young age‚ Giuseppe studied Latin with his village priest. In 1850 he received the tonsure from the Bishop of Treviso‚ and was given a scholarship from the Diocese of Treviso to attend the Seminary of Padua‚ where he finished his classical‚ philosophical‚ and theological
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Family: Work and Rest The NEED to BALANCE WORK and REST in FAMILY LIFE 7th World Meeting of Families‚ May 30 – June 2‚ 2012 in Milan‚ Italy Pope Benedict XVI called for a healthier balance between work and rest. The natural rhythms of work and recreation are essential to family life A proper understanding of rest and recreation would help to restore family life In our time‚ unfortunately‚ WORK – excessive competitiveness motivated by the quest for success and the view to
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Laudato Si encyclical by Pope Francis is to help humanity recognize and realize the damage humanity is causing to the environment and the living people. It also talks about the religious‚ spiritual‚ and moral causes that ruin the relationship of man with nature. In addition‚ Francis also comprised The Canticle of the Creatures‚ which is also known as The Canticle of Brother Sun. It includes three sections; the first section includes the praise of God for all his creations. The Second section includes
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charitable one. Catholic Social Teaching explains what must be followed in order to make a charitable society possible. Pope Francis is a major advocate for Catholic Social Teaching‚ and thoroughly explains its works in his second encyclical: Laudato si. In this encyclical Pope Francis explains not only the principles of Catholic Social Teaching‚ but also uses these principles to help shed light on his view of the economic market. Pope Francis’s theory on how the economic market go directly with the
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