SOCIOLOGY 3 Socio Cultural Dimension Prof. Ma Corazon T. Unas Institute of Religion • Man tends to ask the why’s of things as he grows older… why do we study? why is it difficult to be good? why do we need to listen to others? Many will give answers… but all of them boils down to one source and goal… all are directly or indirectly related to the HUMAN PERSONthe center of all. But MAN is a paradox- hard to understand‚ each individual is a complex being with different traits‚ yet whole. The need
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Populorum Progressio Populorum Progressio is the encyclical written by Pope Paul VI on the development of people. It is to address the world economy and its effects on the people of the world. Since the year it was written‚ March 26‚ 1967‚ many nations saw their economic development stall‚ while others continued to grow at record pace. The Pope then turned his attention to the progress of the people of the world because of the widespread of hunger‚ poverty‚ endemic disease‚ and ignorance in the
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as they were not educated enough to hold another job. There were no unions or insurance plans and the Government did not pay any attention to the behind-the-scenes injustices. The Church became a voice for social reform. Pope Leo XIII wrote an encyclical on the condition of labor wherein he petitioned for the care of the weak and poor. The Pope lobbied against the social injustices that were prominent at the time. He also wrote that governments should pay special attention to the poor as the wealthy
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A Thomasian Accountant Viewpoint Reaction on the Article “Is Thomistic Philosophy Relevant in Seminary Formation?” Cl. Marc Will R. Lim‚ SDB It gives me hard time to react on an article written by someone whom I perceived belongs to the rule makers‚ standard bearers and theory setters. Having graduated from a Pontifical University run by Dominicans and with a degree afar from the course which subjects everything to critical reflection‚ I found myself on the verge of completely adhering. But
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Familiaris Consortio REFLECTION INTRODUCTION Section one of the document expressly opens up the contents and applications of the document to a broad audience. It is written for those living in fidelity to the Church’s extant teachings and practices in the area of matrimony‚ Marriage is the intimate union and equal partnership of a man and a woman. It comes to us from the hand of God‚ who created male and female in his image‚ so that they might become one body and might be fertile and multiply
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Nazism effected freedoms in the 20th century‚ the Catholic Church responded to these violations of freedom through foreign aid‚ encyclicals‚ and concordats. The Catholic Church defines freedom in catechism 1723 as the power‚ rooted in reason and will‚ to act or not to act‚ to do this or that‚ and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility. By free will one shapes one’s own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when
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PACEM IN TERRIS: A PERMANENT COMMITMENT 1. Almost forty years ago‚ on Holy Thursday‚ 11 April 1963‚ Pope John XXIII published his epic Encyclical Letter Pacem in Terris. Addressing himself to “all men of good will”‚ my venerable predecessor‚ who would die just two months later‚ summed up his message of “peace on earth” in the first sentence of the Encyclical: “Peace on earth‚ which all men of every era have most eagerly yearned for‚ can be firmly established and sustained only if the order laid
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SOCIAL TEACHING * is a body of doctrine developed by the Catholic Church on matters of poverty and wealth‚ economics‚ social organization and the role of the state. Its foundations are widely considered to have been laid by Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical letter Rerum Novarum‚ which advocated economic Distributism and condemned both Capitalism and Socialism‚ although its roots can be traced to the writings of Catholic thinkers such as St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo‚ and is also derived
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climate change can cause many issues including rising sea levels. The Catholic Church raises awareness about the environmental issues of pollution and climate change around the world. Pope Francis expresses the issues of environmentalism through his encyclical
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and audience‚ in which she actively welcomes participation. Recently‚ Kelly has been constructing convoluted‚ abstract‚ collage-based works‚ and it is one of these works‚ from her Tender Cuts series‚ that has been selected for analysis‚ entitled ‘Encyclical From The Right Hand’. Kelly often bases her works on social topics currently being looked at in Australian media‚ and regards the female figure as beautiful‚ regardless of size‚ shape or ethnicity. Despite focusing on topics that are widespread
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