TWELVE PRINCIPLES

OF

CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING

 Social Teachings of the Church

CHURCH WORLD
GOSPEL CULTURE
FAITH JUSTICE
Social Social
Teachings Problems

1. What should be 1. What is

(Rights & Duties;
Common Good)
2. Human Dignity: Person 2. Actual Poverty:
“Gloria Del Homo Vivens” material & spiritual
3. Faith & Justice towards 3. World’s Justice,
Peace and Development; peace and development;
integral Evangelization secular order
1. Human Dignity and Equality

 every person created in the image

of God
 equal in dignity, regardless of sex,
race, religion, etc.
 dignity of conscience and its
freedom of choice
 Human
Dignity

Towards a Culture of Life, a Culture of Human Rights, and a Culture of Peace

2. Respect for Human Life

> from the moment of conception

to natural death
> at every stage of growth and
decline
> a culture of life vs. a culture
of death
3. Promotion of Human Rights

 universal, inviolable, inalienable

 reciprocity of rights and duties

 for justice and peace

PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND INSTRUMENTAL RIGHTS
WITH CORRESPONDING DUTIES:
AN INTERPRETATION OF PACEM IN TERRIS
4. Common Good

> sum of social conditions that

enable persons to achieve
their full human potential

> interdependence

> universal common good

5. Association and Participation

> man as a social being,

in community

> stability and rights of the family

> right and duty to participate

in society
 CHURCH WORLD
Role of
Catholic
Laity
FAITH
CULTURE
SPIRITUALITY
SOCIETY
THEOLOGY Partisan
POLITICS
Politics
PHILOSOPHY ECONOMICS

JUSTICE HISTORY

MORALS
Separation
of Church
and State

THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD:

Contextualizing the Involvement of Church Leaders and Laity
6. Subsidiarity

 limits to government

 role of intermediary and voluntary

organizations

 Civil Society and cultural values

7. Role of Public Authorities

> subject to God’s moral order

> purpose is to attain the

common good

> towards a democratic system

 DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS

SUSTAINABLE III
DEVELOPMENT

ECONOMIC
GROWTH
II

Economic Development

BASIC I
NEEDS

(Social
Development)

HUMAN CULTURE PEACE

RIGHTS OF BUILDING
PEACE-MAKING PEACE PROCESS
AND
DEMOCRACY

PASTORAL HORIZONS FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT

8. Dignity of Human Labor

 homo faber as co-creator

 right to work, to fair wages,

to join unions

 agrarian reform: land to the tiller

9. Universal Destination of Goods

> use and limits of private

property

> conservation of the

environment

> stewardship
10. Preferential Option for the Poor

 Gospel option (Mt. 25:31-46)

 counter-balance to inequalities
in society

 Church of the Poor

11. Solidarity

> solidary humanism

> oneness with other sectors,

classes, peoples

> globalization without

marginalization
12. Promotion of Peace

 fruit of justice and love, in truth

and freedom

 dialogue towards a culture

of peace

 forgiveness and reconciliation

 towards a civilization of love

 I Social
Continuum

III Economic II Political

Continuum Personal & Family Continuum
Integrity
Human Rights
Environmental &

Spirituality
Protection St
ew Democracy
a c e
rd
sh sti
ip Ju

CULTURE
OF PEACE Com
p assi
on
e
tiv nc
Ac iole
e
Poverty
Dialogue
Disarmament & No
n-
v
Eradication
Cessation of
Hostilities
Intercultural
Understanding &
Solidarity

Promoting a Culture of Peace

(Six Dimensions and Operative Values)
_____________________________

References:

1. Pope John XXIII. On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice,

Charity and Liberty (Pacem in Terris). 1963.
2. Vatican II, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World
(Gaudium et Spes). 1965.
3. _______, Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae). 1965.
4. _______, Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian
Religious (Nostra Aetate). 1965.
5. Catechism of the Catholic Church. ECCCE and Word & Life Publications,
Manila. 1994.
6. Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Compendium of the Social
Doctrine of the Church. Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Vatican, 2004.
7. ______. The Social Agenda: A collection of Magisterial Texts. Libreria
Editrice Vaticana. Vatican, 2000.