1. Catholic Social Teaching Goals: Explore the central themes of CST and their implications for living Examine how societies can meet the needs of their people Evaluate social institutions in light of how they affect the life of people and Human dignity Look at characteristics of contemporary US culture to discover how that culture can influence the work for justice

2. Catholic Social Teaching The Church’s social teaching is presented in a number of documents addressed to the universal world. Encyclicals council documents and Pastoral letters are some of the common vehicles Magisterium what it it? The college of bishops in union with the Bishop of Rome form the magisterium.

3. Catholic Social Teaching Principles of CST: Life and Dignity of the Human Person This is the first because it is the foundational principle Every human person has enormous Worth and is not greater than anyone else’s dignity WE call this inherent dignity; it comes with being a human being

4. Catholic Social Teaching Whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder. Genocide, abortion, euthanasia or willful self-destruction whatever violated the integrity of the human person… whatever insults human dignity such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution

5. Catholic Social Teaching the sale of women and children, as well as disgraceful working conditions where workers as treated as mere tools for profit rather than as free rand responsible persons; all the things and others of their like are infamies indeed. They poison human society and others of their like are infamies indeed. They poison human society they are a supreme dishonor to the Creator. Documents of Vatican II; The Church in the Modern World #27