A video series the Social Doctrine of the Church, by the Order of Preachers

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This looks interesting. Its no secret that the idea of social justice has been hijacked by those with a political agenda. I myself used to despise the term simply because of the way it is often used. When I discovered the truth of Church teaching on the subject in the Catechism as well as the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, I realized that I had no arguments against it. Particularly since the Church does allow for some differences of opinion on things such as the best way to help the poor, etc.

Now, the Order of Preachers via their online apostolate, Preaching Friars, is putting out a series of videos on the Church’s teaching regarding Social Justice. I admit curiosity at how they will discuss and present the topics.

Here are the first two introductory videos:

preachingfriars.org/vox-clamantis/dominicans-social-justice

preachingfriars.org/vox-clamantis/vox-clamantis-why-social-justice

I will try to keep posting these as they come out.

Our Holy Father Dominic, pray for us.

Peace,
 
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Its no secret that the idea of social justice has been hijacked by those with a political agenda. I myself used to despise the term simply because of the way it is often used.
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My thought on it is that we should always seek the greater good of society rather than personal interest (I call that social justice), but that the ways to do this largely cross into matters of prudence.

When the Pope and Universal Magisterium preach social justice, there is typically a moral underlying it that we may have to agree to, but we are not necessarily bound to the prudential judgments made off of it. Thus, when we hear preaching on it, we may be bound to submit to the certain underlying moral principle (love your brother, etc), but not necessarily the means to do this (minimum wage laws, increasing taxes on the wealthy, laxity on the borders, etc). The problem is that some ‘Catholics’ pay more heed to these non-binding potentially erroneous prudential judgments than they do to certain moral truths and they harp on the failure of other Catholics to bind themselves to such prudential judgments as an excuse to abandon the truer teachings. Having these priorities so out of whack is a recipe for disaster.
 
 
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