Catholic Social Thought Principles

The Catholic Social Thought Principles
Catholic Social Teaching promotes a vision of society and wisdom gathered from experience to respond towards social justice issues throughout history. (Cornish, 2016)
There are nine principles of Catholic Social Thought:
Dignity of the Human Person
Dignity is, fundamentally, an ethical term used to indicate “the quality of being worthy or honorable.” a worth which human beings possess (Sweet, 2007). The real dignity of (a person) lies not in what he has, but in what he is. (Australian Catholic University, 2017b)
There are five bases of Human dignity (United Nations, 2015) (Australian Catholic University, 2017a)
1. Everyone is born free and equal in dignity and rights, human beings are endow with reason

The overcoming of cultural, juridical and social obstacles that often constitutes real barriers to the shared participation of citizens in the destiny of their communities' calls for work in the areas of information and education. (Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1917)

Solidarity
“Solidarity helps us to see the ‘other’-whether a person, people or nation-not just as some kind of instrument, with a work capacity and physical strength to be exploited at low cost and then discarded when no longer useful, but as our ‘neighbor,’…” – Solicitudo Rei Socialis

Preferential option for the poor
The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich; the rights of workers over the maximization of profits; the preservation of the environment over uncontrolled industrial expansion; production to meet social needs over production for military purposes. (John Paul II,

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