MODULE 1

Church
and
Social
Realities
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CHURCH AND SOCIAL REALITIES LEARNING

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OBJECTIVES:
1. Understand the relationship
of social realities and the
Church Social teachings;
2. Recognize the nature of the
Catholic Social Teachings
and its relationship to the
human sciences; and
3. Appropriate the history of
the development of the social
teachings of the Church.
 List down ten (10)
social realities or
social problems in
our country.
ACTIVITY #1

CHURCH AND SOCIAL REALITIES

 What is the

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relationship
of the Church
with the
current social
realities in our
country?
CHURCH AND SOCIAL REALITIES
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What is the
Church?
Pope Francis
Luis Antonio Cardinal
Tagle

CHURCH AND SOCIAL REALITIES

 A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE GATHER AND
PRAY.

What is the THE PEOPLE GATHERED BY GOD AND

WHO RESPOND TO GOD IN FAITH.
Church? - THEY FOLLOW CERTAIN DOCTRINE
AND ETHICS.
- TAYO ANG SIMBAHAN.
- BINUKLOD TAYO NG DIYOS SA
IISANG PANANAMPALATAYA.
THE CHURCH IS ALL OF US!

WE MUST THINK OF THE CHUR CH AS A

LIVING ORGANISM COMPOSED OF
PEOPLE WE KNOW AND WALK WITH,
AND NOT AS AN ABSTRACT AND
CHURCH AND SOCIAL REALITIES DISTANT REALITY.

THIS IS THE CHURCH. ALL OF US.

 THE WORD CHURCH COMES FROM
THE GREEK WORD "EKKLESIA" WHICH

What is the LITERARILY MEANS "THOSE CALLED

Church?
CHURCH AND SOCIAL REALITIES
OUT." ITS ORIGINAL MEANING REFERS
TO AN ASSEMBLY OF CITIZENS WHO
ENJOY FULL CIVIL RIGHTS OR
CITIZENS' ASSEMBLY FOR SOME
LEGISLATIVE PURPOSES.
THE ENGLISH WORD "CHUR CH" IS
DERIVED FROM THE TER M "KYR IAKE,"
WHICH MEANS "THE LOR D'S" OR
"WHAT BELONGS TO THE LOR D.
THE CHURCH THEREFORE IS NOT
JUST A SOCIAL GROUPING OF PEOPLE
DRAWN TOGETHER BY CULTUR AL
VALUES AND ATTITUDES BUT FAITH-
ASSEMBLY WHOSE ROOT CAUSE IS
GOD'S FREE CALL TO ALL TO SHARE
HIS DIVINE GOODNESS AND LOVE IN
CHRIST. (CFC 1355)
Catholic Social Teaching

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– is a set of teachings of the Catholic
Church which concerns the social
dimensions of human existence.
Evangelization
– is the sharing of the Good news or
proclamation of salvation to all of creation.
Integral Evangelization
– this is the mission of the church in continuing the mission of Christ of
proclamation of the total salvation to all peoples which affects all the
dimensions of human existence.
The social teaching of the church is “the precise

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formulation of the results of a careful reflection
on the complex realities of human life, in society
and in the international order, in the light of faith
and of the Church’s tradition. It aims to interpret
these realities, determining their harmony with
or discord from the gospel teaching on man and
vocation, a vocation which is at once earthly
and heavenly.

Compendium on Social Doctrine of the Church 72,

quoting Sollicitudo Rei Socialis 41.
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SOURCES OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING
1. Revelation
2. Social dimension of the human person