1. A CALL TO ACTION
Lauren O’Reilly, Colleen Almeida, Zahra Amiji
and Luke Arieta
Period A
September 19,2013
2. OCTOGESIMA ADVENIENS
“A CALL TO ACTION”
Written by: Pope Paul VI
Written in: 1971
Occasion: 80th anniversary of the publication of
the encyclical Rerum Novarum
3. TOPICS IN THE ENCYCLICAL
1. Universal Appeal
2. Diversity of Situations
3. Specific Message of the Church
4. Extent of Present-Day Changes
5. Urbanization
6. Christians in the City
7. Youth
8. Role of Women
9. Workers
10. Victims of Changes
4. TOPICS CONT’D
11. Discrimination
12. Right to Emigrate
13. Creating Employment
14. Media of Social Communication
15. Environment
16. Fundamental Aspirations and Currents of
Ideas
17. Advantages and Limitations of juridical
recognition
18. Political Society
19. Ideologies and human liberty
20. For greater justice
21. Changes of attitude and structures
5. RIGHTS OF WOMEN
In other countries human dignity lacks
Where human dignity lacks, delinquency,
criminality, abuse of drugs and eroticism is presented
Women aren’t always treated as equals
Denied distinction of women’s role at heart of society
Mary- mother of God -> shows women have extremely high
importance in society
6. THE “POOR”
Poor of society is not just viewed as just the
people without money but also the “handicapped,
maladjusted, the old, and those on the fringe of
society”
We should help them and defend their place in sociey
and their human dignity
Society often leaves these people behind -> only
focused on success
7. SHARING IN RESPONSIBILITY
We are all called to help others
Everyone has the responsibility to help others
with their basic rights and live in a free society
without imposing ourselves on others’ freedom.
For a Christian, losing himself in God is what sets
him free so he can find true freedom renewed in the
death and resurrection of the Lord
