Caritas in Veritate: Pope Benedict's Call for Integral Human Development
1. Caritas in Veritate
Opening our minds to love,
Opening our love to truth
Prepared by: Ysabel Alexandra Herrera
2. What is it?
Encyclical,
Pope Benedict XVI
Second social encyclical
Deus est Caritas
June
29, 2009
Continues tradition from Rerum Novarum
Commemorates 40th Anniversary of Paul
VI’s Populorum Progressio (1967)
3. What is it?
THEME
In Christ, charity in truth becomes the Face
of His Person, a vocation for us to love our
brothers and sisters in the truth of his plan
Integral Human Development
4. Integral Human Development
Integral
human development implies the
advance towards the true good of every
individual, community and society, in every
single dimension of human life: social,
economic, political, intellectual, spiritual
and religious.
MESSAGE FOR THE FEAST OF DEEPAVALI 20093, , Pontifical Council
5. Integral Human Development
“Development
of the whole man and of all
men"
”From less human conditions to those
which are more human"
”Integral human development
presupposes the responsible freedom of
the individual and of peoples"
(PP, 42, Paul VI)
(PP, 20, Paul VI).
(Caritas, 17).
6. Background:
Populorum Progressio
Affirms the right of poor nations to full
human development. Decries economic
structures promoting inequality. Calls for
new international organizations and
agreements
7. Background:
Populorum Progressio
Poor
nations --> current economic crisis
Full human development --> caritas
Structures of inequality --> sin, truth
New international organizations -->
globalization based on caritas in veritate
That is, love in the truth that we are all
interdependent
8. Recap
Caritas
Recalls the global vision of Populorum
Progressio
Three
in Veritate: truth in love
Ideas of Catholic Social Teaching
Common Good, Subsidiarity, Solidarity
Option
for the poor
Integral Human Development
9. Caritas in Veritate: Content
God’s
plan for us is to love our sisters and
brothers
Knowing the plan is Truth
Natural Law
Knowledge
and Praxis
10. Caritas in Veritate: Content
Everything
is shaped by love
Everything is directed toward love (2)
11. Caritas in Veritate: Content
A
rejection of cultural relativism and ethical
subjectivism
90%
of Americans accept, at least in word,
some form of relativism
12. Caritas in Veritate: Content
To
love is to desire the person’s good and
to take steps to secure it
Defines
Cannot
our common good
fail to assume the whole human
family as a way to shape the earthly city
(7)
13. Caritas in Veritate: Content
The
risk for our time is that the de facto
interdependence of people and nations is
not matched by ethical interaction of
conscience and minds that would give rise
to truly human development. Only in
charity, illumined by the light of reason and
faith, is it possible to pursue development
goals that possess a more humane and
humanizing value (9)
14. Caritas in Veritate: Content
Progress
“In
is a vocation
the design of God, every man is called
upon to develop and fulfill himself, for
every life is a vocation” (16, quot. PP)
15. Caritas in Veritate: Content
VISION
Goal
of rescuing peoples, first and
foremost, from hunger, deprivation,
endemic diseases and illiteracy. From the
economic point of view, this meant their
active participation on equal terms in
economic process”
16. From
the social point of view it meant their
evolution into educated societies marked
by solidarity.
17. From
the political point of view it mean the
consolidation of democratic regimes
capable of ensuring freedom and peace.
(21)
18. Primary
capital to be safeguarded and
valued is man, the human person in his or
her integrity (25)
Profit has a role, but a limited role (21)
States ability to safeguard the poor has been
compromised by global economy
Two-edge sword of outsourcing
19.
Charity in truth combats the superdevelopment
in economics, technology, and practical atheism
Integral human development fosters the
interaction of the different levels of knowledge in
order to promote the authentic development of
peoples (30)
Moral evaluation and scientific research go hand in
hand (31)
20. Human
being is made for gift:
transcendent dimension
Presumption
of Original Sin:
Modern man sees himself as the sole
author of himself, his life, and society (34)
Individualism of modernity
21. The
economy has been included for some
time in the list of areas where the effects
of sin are most evident (34)
22. Market,
in a climate of mutual trust,
permits encounters between persons
While the market is subject to
commutative justice (giving and receiving
between parties in a transaction) the
Church emphasizes that it is subject to
distributive and social justice (35)
23.
The logic of gift must find a place in market
relations
Consider Bob’s Red Mill foods
Without gratuitousness there is no justice.
Markets must permit free operation of
enterprises in conditions of equal opportunity
Alongside profit, we allow mutualist enterprises and
pursuit of social ends
24. Profound
new way of understanding
business enterprises (40)
Stakeholders: any one with a stake in the
success of the company
• Not just stockholders
25. Globalization
is not a fatalistic process of
anonymous impersonal forces
Humanity
is becoming increasingly
interconnected as a cultural event with
causes and effects (42)
Should offer benefits
Not victims but protagonists
26. Human
solidarity imposes duties
Reality
sees an acclimation for rights nonessential in nature while elementary and
basic rights are being unacknowledged
and violated
A right to excess in advanced societies linked
to lack of food and water in poorer societies
27. Economy
needs ethics to function
correctly (45)
Man is created in the image of God
The
economy is a human activity
Not an anonymous process outside our
control
28. Development
programmes must be based
on the centrality of the human person as
the subject primarily responsible for
development (47)
29. Development
must go hand in hand with a
relationship to the environment (48)
When viewed as the result of pure chance,
our sense of responsibility wanes
Nature
expresses a design of love and
truth
Requires solidarity with developing countries
30.
The way humanity treats the environment
influences the way it treats itself and vice
versa
The
decisive issue of the overall moral
tenor of society (51)
Thomas Aquinas
St. Francis of Assissi
31. Theme
of development can be identified
with the inclusion in relation of all
individuals and peoples within the one
community of the human family, built in
solidarity on the basis of fundamental
values of justice and peace (54)
32. As
a spiritual being, human beings are
defined through interpersonal relations
Rejects modern individualism
The
development of peoples requires the
recognition that the human race is a single
family (53)
33. The
unity of the human race in Christian
revelation relies on a metaphysical
interpretation of the human as relational
(55)
But
to offer this contribution there must be
a place for God in the public realm
Reason and faith purify each other (56)
34. Solutions to current
economic crisis
Development
aid for poor countries
creates wealth for all (60)
Greater solidarity means greater access to
education (61)
An ability to address migration (62)
Full employment: right to work (63)
Labour unions (64)
Finance must be directed toward wealth
creation and development (65)
35. Globalization
Consumer
has specific social
responsibility
Positive growth: consumers and their
associations (66)
• Cooperative purchasing
• Requires Market transparency
36. Globalization
A
reform of the United Nations with real
teeth
To protect and give voice to poorer nations in
effective decision-making
Urgent
need for a world political authority
37. Technology
Challenge
of development is linked to
technological progress (69)
A profound human reality
But must remember the hegemony of the
spirit over matter
When
efficiency and utility are the sole
criterion of truth then development is
denied (70)
38. Technology
Entranced
by an exclusive reliance on
technology, reason without faith is doomed
to flounder in an illusion of its own
omnipotence. Faith without reason risks
being cut off from everyday life. (74)
39. Technology
The
social question has become a
radically anthropological question:
How is life conceived?
How is it manipulated as bio-technology
places human life increasingly under
man’s control (75)
Is man the product of his own labor or
does he depend on God? (74)
40. Technology
There
cannot be holistic development and
universal common good unless people’s
spiritual and moral welfare is taken into
account, considered in their entirety as
body and soul (76)
Resurrection of the body