Some Catholic Social Justice issues

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Charity/Love/Agape/Ahave/Hesed/Eleos (Eleeo)
Solidarity
Wisdom
Happiness
Kingdom of God or Heaven
Abortion
Human nature
Women’s rights
National debt
Minimum wages
Capital punishment
Minorities’ rights
Military presence in other countries
Drugs, includes alcohol
War
Atomic bombs and power
Gay rights or homosexuality
Big or bigger government
Murders
Rapes
Pollution
Environmental issues
Euthanasia
Taxes
Immigration
Family
Sexually Transmitted Disease
Teen unwed pregnancy
Chastity
Gambling
Media
Education
Judicial system
Prison or penal system
Affirmative action
Civil Rights
Common good
Subsidiarity
Crime
Discrimination
Prejudice
Racism
Genocide
Ecological issues
Equal rights amendment
Poverty
Private property
Homeless
Industrialization & ecological issues
Just war theory
Natural law or reason
Native Americans
Pornography
Adult entertainment centers
Population
Prostitution
Slavery
Minimum wage
Welfare, individual and business or corporation
Separation of Church and state
Constitution
Reason and faith
 
A grouping of these topics is really helpful.
Example: Prostitution, STDs, adult entertainment, legalized gambling

Family life, premarital sex, unwed parents, sexism, rape, sexually transmitted diseases, divorce, chastity, education, prostitution, pornography, adult entertainment, population, birth controls

Marijuana, street drugs, murder rate in major metropolitan areas, capital punishment, rape

Civil rights, Native Americans, racism, prejudice, genocide, abortion, human nature, women’s rights, immigration, natural law or reason, love, happiness, Kingdom of God, solidarity, common good, subsidiarity, minority rights, euthanasia, education, ageism, sexism, racism, prejudice, stereotype, genocide, homelessness, poverty

Crime, justice system, penal system

Poverty, education, individual welfare, corporate welfare, minimum wages, social security

Armed services, just war, military in countries around the world, capital punishment, weapons of mass destruction, atomic bombs and power,

National debt, taxes, private property, big government

Environment, pollution, climate change

Euthanasia

Gambling

Media

Common good, subsidiarity, solidarity, charity, philanthropy, natural law, faith and reason,
Individual countries & our Constitution
 
Zoltan_Cobalt said:
Your list seems more political than anything else.
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Comments like this remind me why I’m a lapsed Catholic. When most modern popes have called for social justice, for better wagers for the poor, for better stewardship of our earth, it gets dismissed as being “political”.
 
I tend to like the Jewish view:

Rabbi Hillel, in explaining the Torah to a pagan who asked him to explain the Torah (the Jewish Law), is said to have replied: “What is evil to you, do not do to others. That is the entire Torah - The rest is merely commentary.”

Jesus (himself a Rabbi) said essentially the same thing – Be good to everyone! Don’t worry so much about the details of the Law. Drop that sacrifice at the temple and go help your brother if he needs help.

Both Jewish orthodoxy and the Catholic Church have added countless rules and regulations over the past 2000 years.

I do try to live by our Church teachings, but the essence of what we should do as human beings is what the Rabbis have said, as I cited above.

(our Jewish friends here (Meltzerboy?) - do you to agree? My education is Reform Judaism, not orthodox or conservative).

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A grouping of these topics is really helpful.
Example: Prostitution, STDs, adult entertainment, legalized gambling

Family life, premarital sex, unwed parents, sexism, rape, sexually transmitted diseases, divorce, chastity, education, prostitution, pornography, adult entertainment, population, birth control

Most of the issues in these two grouping are solved by the beauty of chastity!

The rest are solved by the beauty of temperance!

I am the OP.

Those are standard issues of CSJ.

When I grouped them, their solutions are of course the Gospel: the power of God to save.

Love, which we inherit, like a child inherits life.

I will be back, my children need my attention and love.
 
xNoOnex said:
Comments like this remind me why I’m a lapsed Catholic. When most modern popes have called for social justice, for better wagers for the poor, for better stewardship of our earth, it gets dismissed as being “political”.
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Why would a comment from someone make you lapse in your Catholicism? You don’t think these people exist in every denomination or lack of denomination–indeed in every walk of life? Why does what other lay people say have any affect on your faith, what you believe or how you live your faith? Many of the faithful embrace our popes calls for these things and work towards them. My only interest is this: is the Catholic church the church founded by Christ and the one holding his authority? If it is–and I believe it is–then all that matters is that I try live out its teachings. It doesn’t matter that others see politics in everything, that some seem to make no attempt to live out the faith they profess to hold, that they say mean and nasty things about each other, that some of the clergy behave badly etc… Well maybe it matters – it just doesn’t matter regarding my faith and my attempts to live it–and I can’t see why it would.

The peace of Christ,
Mark
 
I pulled this list from an approved high school social justice book, I think.

The book is approved by the American bishops, I believe.

I do not have the time to check.
 
Jim_Baur said:
A grouping of these topics is really helpful.
Example: Prostitution, STDs, adult entertainment, legalized gambling

Family life, premarital sex, unwed parents, sexism, rape, sexually transmitted diseases, divorce, chastity, education, prostitution, pornography, adult entertainment, population, birth control
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Prostitution, adult entertainment (Pornography) gambling, premarital sex, sexism, rape, artificial birth control…These are sins and crimes.
STDs, and unwed parents… are results of the above.

I don’t see a relationship to social justice.

This is the problem with this subject we call social justice. It has become so broad and encompasses so many items that it is not understandable and grows more meaningless every day.
 
Any list of Catholic social justice issues would need to take into account what is already being communicated by the media, and addressed by others. For instance, some of the issues on the prior lists are already well established, with regular media attention, many advocates, and no opponents. Other issues, such as prolife, are either ignored or attacked by the media; have very few other supporters besides the Catholic Church; and many powerful opponents.

The prophetic role is not to give equal time to every issue, but to prioritize. The biggest attack on prolife has been to dilute the attention of Catholics. In my old parish, they would address a social justice issue very week. One Sunday it was abortion; the next Sunday, they would urge people to vote against school budget cuts that would eliminate the teaching of German in the local public high school (!) That is pretty much how it went all year. Anyone with any kind of opinion was able to re word their agenda into a “justice” issue, and get free advertising.
 
From the CCC
1928. "Society ensures SOCIAL JUSTICE when it provides the conditions that allow associations or individuals to obtain what is their due, according to their nature and their vocation. SOCIAL JUSTICE is linked to the common good and the exercise of authority. "
  1. "SOCIAL JUSTICE can be obtained only in respecting the transcendent dignity of man. The person represents the ultimate end of society, which is ordered to him: What is at stake is the dignity of the human person, whose defense and promotion have been entrusted to us by the Creator, and to whom the men and women at every moment of history are strictly and responsibly in debt.[John Paul II, SRS 47.] "
 
captainrick said:
I tend to like the Jewish view:

Rabbi Hillel, in explaining the Torah to a pagan who asked him to explain the Torah (the Jewish Law), is said to have replied: “What is evil to you, do not do to others. That is the entire Torah - The rest is merely commentary.”

Jesus (himself a Rabbi) said essentially the same thing – Be good to everyone! Don’t worry so much about the details of the Law. Drop that sacrifice at the temple and go help your brother if he needs help.

Both Jewish orthodoxy and the Catholic Church have added countless rules and regulations over the past 2000 years.

I do try to live by our Church teachings, but the essence of what we should do as human beings is what the Rabbis have said, as I cited above.

(our Jewish friends here (Meltzerboy?) - do you to agree? My education is Reform Judaism, not orthodox or conservative).

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As I do respect our Jewish neighbors, and all men of a good will, Christianity can say the same thing, however, in both cases, the details or “commentary,” eventually turn out to be the points of contention.

Peace,
Ed
 
reuters.com/article/2015/07/13/us-markets-global-idUSKCN0PM12F20150713

FROM ABOVE ARTICLE

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras finally won conditional agreement to receive a possible 86 billion euros ($95 billion) over three years, but he had to pay a high price.
Fifty billion euros ($55 billion) worth of Greek state assets - including recapitalized banks - will have to be put into a trust fund beyond the government’s reach, to be sold off primarily to pay down the national debt.
 
Jim_Baur said:
reuters.com/article/2015/07/13/us-markets-global-idUSKCN0PM12F20150713

FROM ABOVE ARTICLE

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras finally won conditional agreement to receive a possible 86 billion euros ($95 billion) over three years, but he had to pay a high price.
Fifty billion euros ($55 billion) worth of Greek state assets - including recapitalized banks - will have to be put into a trust fund beyond the government’s reach, to be sold off primarily to pay down the national debt.
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He was also directed to begin austerity programs that will effect those on welfare and increase the retirement age.

I wonder when the United States will face such demands from our debt holders.
 
At about $ 18,000.000,000,000.00 do our creditors have more say than the citizens?
 
Zoltan_Cobalt said:
Your list seems more political than anything else.
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How exactly do you talk about social justice without being political?

When people say this, usually they seem to mean “expressing politics that I don’t like.”

Edwin
 
Contarini said:
How exactly do you talk about social justice without being political?

When people say this, usually they seem to mean “expressing politics that I don’t like.”

Edwin
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I was making an observation, Edwin. Frankly I don’t like politics in general.
 
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