1. Caritas in Veritate Opening our minds to love, Opening our love to truth

2. What is it? Encyclical, Pope Benedict XVI Second social encyclical Deus est Caritas June 29, 2009 Continues tradition from Rerum Novarum Commemorates 40th Anniversary of Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio (1967)

3. What is it? THEME In Christ, charity in truth becomes the Face of His Person, a vocation for us to love our brothers and sisters in the truth of his plan Integral Human Development

4. Integral human development implies the advance towards the true good of every individual, community and society, in every single dimension of human life: social, economic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious.  MESSAGE FOR THE FEAST OF DEEPAVALI 20093,, Pontifical Council

5. Integral Human Development “Development of the whole man and of all men" (PP, 42, Paul VI) ”From less human conditions to those which are more human" (PP, 20, Paul VI). ”Integral human development presupposes the responsible freedom of the individual and of peoples" (Caritas, 17).

6. Background: Populorum Progressio Affirms the right of poor nations to full human development. Decries economic structures promoting inequality. Calls for new international organizations and agreements

7. Background: Populorum Progressio Poor nations --> current economic crisis Full human development --> caritas Structures of inequality --> sin, truth New international organizations --> globalization based on caritas in veritate That is, love in the truth that we are all interdependent

8. Basic Catholic Social Teaching CATHOLICISM’S BEST KEPT SECRET

9. Basic Catholic Social Teaching Catholic? Catholic, addressed to all people Unique insight might contribute to the growth of humanity Best Kept Secret

10. Basic Catholic Social Teaching 1891 – Rerum Novarum (On New Things) Addressed to the new world of capitalism and industrialization Rejects both laissez faire capitalism and Marxist communism Both treat the human person as object Defends the right of private property But a right with limits

11. Basic Catholic Social Teaching Vatican II: Gaudium et Spes (Joy & Hope) Reconfigures Church’s commitment to the poor Influenced by Council of Medillin Conference of Latin American Bishops Focus on poverty in Latin American and Church’s role Revisioned the relationship of the Church to the Latin American people

12. Basic Catholic Social Teaching Option for the Poor Council of Medellin Always choose those options which favor the poor Rooted in the Bible: Concern for justice Sermon on the Mount

13. Basic Catholic Social Teaching Natural Law Theory God’s plan for the world is accessible to human reason Human beings must come to know this plan and live their lives according to it Moral law is the foundation of positive/social law An unjust law is no law at all

14. Core Ideas Three Ideas Three ideas guide CST The Common Good Subsidiarity Solidarity

15. Core Ideas: Common Good “The whole network of social conditions [that] enable human individuals to flourish and live a fully, genuinely human life, otherwise described as “integral human development” All are responsible for all, collectively, at the level of society or nation, not only as individuals”

16. Core Ideas: Common Good Network Enabling Individuals and Groups Flourish and live fully and genuinely human life Responsibility Yes, I am my brothers’ and sisters’ keeper

17. Core Ideas: Subsidiarity “Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to greater or higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do”

18. Core Ideas: Subsidiarity Empowers Maintains autonomy Freedom Dignity

19. Core Ideas: Solidarity “The fact that men and women in various parts of the world feel personally affected by the injustices and violations of human rights committed in distance countries, countries which perhaps they will never visit, is a further sign of a reality transformed into awareness, thus acquiring a moral connotation.”

20. Core Ideas: Solidarity We are aware We are affected It is a reality Human communion and community Working together and for each other to end injustice

21. Core Ideas Personalism Centrality of the person for philosophical thought The person is the center of social ethics Human dignity as the core of personalism Rights Voice Development

22. Structural Sin When personal sin introduces structures which consolidate concrete acts of evil

23. Summary Catholic Social Teaching: a secret but a tradition Steeped in Natural Law Three Principles: Common Good, Subsidiarity, Solidarity Personalism Structural Sin Rejects both free-market capitalism and state-run communism Option for the poor

24. Summary Populorum Progression: 1967 Sollicitudo Rei Socialis: Caritas in Veritate: Integral Human development across the globe

25. Recap  Caritas in Veritate: truth in love Recalls the global vision of Populorum Progressio Recalls the global vision of Populorum Progressio  Three Ideas of Catholic Social Teaching Common Good, Subsidiarity, Solidarity Common Good, Subsidiarity, Solidarity  Option for the poor  Integral Human Development

26. Caritas in Veritate: Content  God’s plan for us is to love our sisters and brothers Knowing the plan is Truth Knowing the plan is Truth Natural Law Natural Law  Knowledge and Praxis

27. Caritas in Veritate: Content  Everything is shaped by love  Everything is directed toward love (2)

28. Caritas in Veritate: Content  A rejection of cultural relativism and ethical subjectivism  90% of Americans accept, at least in word, some form of relativism

29. Caritas in Veritate: Content  To love is to desire the person’s good and to take steps to secure it  Defines our common good  Cannot fail to assume the whole human family as a way to shape the earthly city (7)

30. Caritas in Veritate: Content  The risk for our time is that the de facto interdependence of people and nations is not matched by ethical interaction of conscience and minds that would give rise to truly human development. Only in charity, illumined by the light of reason and faith, is it possible to pursue development goals that possess a more humane and humanizing value (9)

31. Caritas in Veritate: Content  Progress is a vocation  “In the design of God, every man is called upon to develop and fulfill himself, for every life is a vocation” (16, quot. PP)

32. Caritas in Veritate: Content  VISION  Goal of rescuing peoples, first and foremost, from hunger, deprivation, endemic diseases and illiteracy. From the economic point of view, this meant their active participation on equal terms in economic process”

33.  From the social point of view it meant their evolution into educated societies marked by solidarity.

34.  From the political point of view it mean the consolidation of democratic regimes capable of ensuring freedom and peace. (21)

35.  Primary capital to be safeguarded and valued is man, the human person in his or her integrity (25) Profit has a role, but a limited role (21) Profit has a role, but a limited role (21) States ability to safeguard the poor has been compromised by global economy States ability to safeguard the poor has been compromised by global economy Two-edge sword of outsourcing Two-edge sword of outsourcing

36.  Charity in truth combats the superdevelopment in economics, technology, and practical atheism  Integral human development fosters the interaction of the different levels of knowledge in order to promote the authentic development of peoples (30) Moral evaluation and scientific research go hand in hand (31) Moral evaluation and scientific research go hand in hand (31)

37.  Human being is made for gift: transcendent dimension  Presumption of Original Sin: Modern man sees himself as the sole author of himself, his life, and society (34) Modern man sees himself as the sole author of himself, his life, and society (34) Individualism of modernity Individualism of modernity

38.  The economy has been included for some time in the list of areas where the effects of sin are most evident (34)

39.  Market, in a climate of mutual trust, permits encounters between persons  While the market is subject to commutative justice (giving and receiving between parties in a transaction) the Church emphasizes that it is subject to distributive and social justice (35)

40.  The logic of gift must find a place in market relations Consider Bob’s Red Mill foods Consider Bob’s Red Mill foods  Without gratuitousness there is no justice.  Markets must permit free operation of enterprises in conditions of equal opportunity Alongside profit, we allow mutualist enterprises and pursuit of social ends Alongside profit, we allow mutualist enterprises and pursuit of social ends

41.  Profound new way of understanding business enterprises (40) Stakeholders: any one with a stake in the success of the company Stakeholders: any one with a stake in the success of the company Not just stockholdersNot just stockholders

42.  Globalization is not a fatalistic process of anonymous impersonal forces  Humanity is becoming increasingly interconnected as a cultural event with causes and effects (42) Should offer benefits Should offer benefits Not victims but protagonists Not victims but protagonists

43.  Human solidarity imposes duties  Reality sees an acclimation for rights non- essential in nature while elementary and basic rights are being unacknowledged and violated A right to excess in advanced societies linked to lack of food and water in poorer societies A right to excess in advanced societies linked to lack of food and water in poorer societies

44.  Economy needs ethics to function correctly (45)  Man is created in the image of God  The economy is a human activity Not an anonymous process outside our control Not an anonymous process outside our control

45.  Development programmes must be based on the centrality of the human person as the subject primarily responsible for development (47)

46.  Development must go hand in hand with a relationship to the environment (48) When viewed as the result of pure chance, our sense of responsibility wanes When viewed as the result of pure chance, our sense of responsibility wanes  Nature expresses a design of love and truth Requires solidarity with developing countries Requires solidarity with developing countries

47.  The way humanity treats the environment influences the way it treats itself and vice versa  The decisive issue of the overall moral tenor of society (51) Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas St. Francis of Assissi St. Francis of Assissi

48.  Theme of development can be identified with the inclusion in relation of all individuals and peoples within the one community of the human family, built in solidarity on the basis of fundamental values of justice and peace (54)

49.  As a spiritual being, human beings are defined through interpersonal relations Rejects modern individualism Rejects modern individualism  The development of peoples requires the recognition that the human race is a single family (53)

50.  The unity of the human race in Christian revelation relies on a metaphysical interpretation of the human as relational (55)  But to offer this contribution there must be a place for God in the public realm Reason and faith purify each other (56) Reason and faith purify each other (56)

51. Solutions to current economic crisis  Development aid for poor countries creates wealth for all (60)  Greater solidarity means greater access to education (61)  An ability to address migration (62)  Full employment: right to work (63)  Labour unions (64)  Finance must be directed toward wealth creation and development (65)

52. Globalization  Consumer has specific social responsibility Positive growth: consumers and their associations (66) Positive growth: consumers and their associations (66) Cooperative purchasingCooperative purchasing Requires Market transparencyRequires Market transparency

53. Globalization  A reform of the United Nations with real teeth To protect and give voice to poorer nations in effective decision-making To protect and give voice to poorer nations in effective decision-making  Urgent need for a world political authority

54. Technology  Challenge of development is linked to technological progress (69) A profound human reality A profound human reality But must remember the hegemony of the spirit over matter But must remember the hegemony of the spirit over matter  When efficiency and utility are the sole criterion of truth then development is denied (70)

55. Technology  Entranced by an exclusive reliance on technology, reason without faith is doomed to flounder in an illusion of its own omnipotence. Faith without reason risks being cut off from everyday life. (74)

56. Technology  The social question has become a radically anthropological question:  How is life conceived?  How is it manipulated as bio-technology places human life increasingly under man’s control (75)  Is man the product of his own labor or does he depend on God? (74)

57. Technology  There cannot be holistic development and universal common good unless people’s spiritual and moral welfare is taken into account, considered in their entirety as body and soul (76)  Resurrection of the body

58. Conclusion  Christian humanism: Enkindles charity Enkindles charity Takes lead from truth Takes lead from truth Both are lasting gifts from God Both are lasting gifts from God