Catholic Social Teaching

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This real life story is saddening, it is sad that someone’s son would push them out of their home and using this story, we can get a better understanding of some of the Catholic Social Teachings. There are many Catholic Social Teachings that would apply to this story but only four will be talked about in this essay. The four I have chosen are Dignity of the Human Person, Rights and Responsibilities, Participation and Global Solidarity and Development. I have chosen these four for several reasons that will be talked about further into the essay. To start off, the main idea of the Catholic Social Teaching of Dignity of the Human Person is that people are sacred and are the closest thing we know to God’s image; they represent God on Earth and …show more content…

It is a requirement of life that every person is allowed a minimum level or participation in the world around them. It is wrong for anyone to be excluded or unable to participate. This relates to the real life story because she has to right to participate in the cultural life of the society around her and she contributes and participates through her home, the home she has lived in for decades. She participates through the way her home looks, through the way her land portrays who she is and he is excluding her. He is taking away her right to participate in the way she wants to participate. He is excluding her from the cultural life around her by taking her home, her portrayal of who she is away from her. This teaching can be applied to this story because he is excluding her from the life she wants to live, which he has no right to do. This is how this teaching can be …show more content…

We all have responsibilities to each other that aren’t affected by race, nation, economics and ideology. The world must grow together and depend on each other there must be no underdevelopment or overdevelopment and no one person can accumulate too many things as it is unfair to the world around them. There must be respect for the moral, cultural and spiritual dimensions of every person. This relates to the real life story because he has a responsibility to make sure she is happy, to make sure she is where she wants to be, to make sure that she is enjoying her golden years, he does not have a responsibility to take away the home her husband and his father worked hard to maintain. He has the responsibility to make sure he can help the world, even if it is only by making his mother happy and content. This teaching can be applied to this story because everyone in the world has the right to live where they choose and she is having that right revoked, when he should not be able to take that right away. He has a responsibility to make sure she maintains her rights as she gets older and he is not doing his duty and is failing his responsibilities. This is how this teaching can be

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