1. Catholic social teaching
No Longer the Best Kept Secret of the Church

2. Context
Role of Catholic Social Teaching
Significance of Laudato Si

3. Context Networking for Mission
Challenge to tend persons, institutions, and bonds
SNDdeN in 17 countries, on 5 continents, part of
global sisterhood made up of over 700,000 sisters in1,000s of congregations in almost every country of the world, with co-workers, alumnae/i, associates and mission volunteers
Mission animated by the charism, a collective effervescence

4. SNDdeN Constitutions …a love that reaches beyond the limits of
family, tribe or nation. (60)

5. SNDdeN Constitutions We recognize the call of God
in a growing consciousness throughout the
world of the dignity and value
of each person, race, and nation,
and of the ways in which society, in its
values, structures, and systems,
denies this dignity. (20)

6. SNDdeN Chapter Calls 2014
We choose to stand with people made poor in a world marked by increasing divisions and inequalities. We see the value of human life diminished, the destruction of Earth, and intolerance towards people perceived to be different. Yet we also see new signs of hope in a growing awareness of personal and collective responsibility and a thirst for spirituality.

7. SNDdeN Hallmarks We develop holistic learning communities
which educate for life. (#7)

8. Catholic Social Teaching
Rerum Novarum—1891--Pope Leo XIII
Pacem in Terris—1963--Pope John XXIII
Populorum Progressio—1967--Pope Paul VI
Centesimus Annus—1991--Pope John Paul II
Laudato Si—2015--Pope Francis

9. Principles of CST The Common Good The Dignity of the Human Person
Rights and Responsibilities
The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers
The Option for the Poor and Vulnerable

10. Principles of CST (cont.)
Solidarity and Subsidiarity
Care for God’s Creation

11. Power of Witness
The life and work of
Sr. Dorothy Stang SNDdeN and …

12. Two themes
Global common good
Dialogue

13. Laudato Si-On Care for Our Common Home
I wish to address every person living on this planet. (3)
Everything is interconnected.(70 and throughout)
An integral ecology is also made up of simple daily gestures which break with the logic of violence, exploitation and selfishness. (230)
Interdependence obliges us to think of one world with a common plan. (164)

14. Laudato Si
We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental. Strategies for a solution demand an integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the excluded, and at the same time protecting nature. (139)
…to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. (49)

15. Laudato Si
The principle of the subordination of private property to the universal destination of goods, and thus the right of everyone to their use, is a golden rule of social conduct and “the first principle of the whole ethical and social order.” (93)
“God gave the earth to the whole human race for the sustenance of all its members, without excluding or favoring anyone.” St. John Paul II (93)

16. Laudato Si
…access to safe drinkable water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and, as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights. (30)

17. Laudato Si
We urgently need a humanism capable of bringing together the different fields of knowledge, including economics, in the service of a more integral and integrating vision. (141)

18. Laudato Si
...the fragmentation of knowledge and the isolation of bits of information can actually become a form of ignorance, unless they are integrated into a broader vision of reality.
(138)
…the global common good. (169)

19. Laudato Si A distinctive way of looking at things A way of thinking
Policies
An educational program
A lifestyle
A spirituality
Which together generate resistance to the assault of the technocratic paradigm

20. Laudato Si The need for dialogue: …among religions
…among the various sciences
…among the various ecological movements
(201)

21. Laudato Si Dialogue for the common good demands: -patience
-self-discipline
-generosity (201)

22. Laudato Si
We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.
(229)
…to encourage a “culture of care.” (231)