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christiefan915
12-29-2015, 11:12 AM
For all the people who think they know everything about Catholic dogma. And before anybody offers the lame excuse "but Wikipedia...", note that there are 66 footnotes on the page that you can check.

Catholic social teaching is the body of doctrine developed by the Catholic Church (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church) on matters of social justice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice), involving issues of poverty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty) and wealth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth), economics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics), social organization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_organization) and the role of the state (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_%28polity%29). Its foundations are widely considered to have been laid by Pope Leo XIII (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIII)'s 1891 encyclical letter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclical) Rerum novarum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rerum_novarum), which advocated economic distributism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism) and condemned both capitalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism) and socialism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism), although its roots can be traced to the writings of Catholic thinkers such as St. Thomas Aquinas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Thomas_Aquinas) and St. Augustine of Hippo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine_of_Hippo), and is also derived from concepts present in the Bible (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible) and the cultures of the ancient Near East (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East).... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_social_teaching#cite_note-riseup-1)

According to Pope John Paul II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II), its foundation "rests on the threefold cornerstones of human dignity, solidarity and subsidiarity".[ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_social_teaching#cite_note-3)3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_social_teaching#cite_note-3) These concerns echo elements of Jewish law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_law) and the prophetic books of the Old Testament (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament), and recall the teachings of Jesus Christ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ) recorded in the New Testament (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament), such as his declaration that "whatever you have done for one of these least brothers of Mine,
you have done for Me."

Catholic social teaching is distinctive in its consistent critiques of modern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernity) social and political ideologies both of the left and of the right: liberalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism), communism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism), feminism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism),[5] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_social_teaching#cite_note-Feminism-5)[6] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_social_teaching#cite_note-Feminist-6) atheism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism),[7] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_social_teaching#cite_note-Atheism-7) socialism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism),[8] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_social_teaching#cite_note-wydawnictwoumk.pl-8) fascism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism), capitalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism),[8] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_social_teaching#cite_note-wydawnictwoumk.pl-8) and Nazism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism) have all been condemned, at least in their pure forms, by several popes since the late nineteenth century...

Catholic social doctrine has always tried to find an equilibrium between concern for the whole society, especially for the weakest and poorest, and respect for human liberty, including the right to private property.

Human dignity "Being in the image of God, the human individual possesses the dignity of a person, who is not just something, but someone.

Solidarity and the common good "a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good, not merely "vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of others"

Charity "the Catholic Church declared that "Charity is at the heart of the Church". Every responsibility and every commitment spelt out by that doctrine is derived from charity which, according to the teaching of Jesus, is the synthesis of the entire Law (Matthew 22:36-40).

Subsidiarity In the Roman Catholic Church, subsidiary is a principle of social teaching that all social bodies exist for the sake of the individuals so that what individuals are able to do, society should not take over, and what small societies can do, larger societies should not take over

Distributism and social justice "holds that social and economic structures should promote social justice, including wide ownership of corporations and is the basis for progressive tax rates, anti-trust laws and economic cooperatives including credit unions."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_social_teaching

Celticguy
12-29-2015, 11:21 AM
Uh... ok. Was there to be a follow up ?

christiefan915
12-29-2015, 11:28 AM
Uh... ok. Was there to be a follow up ?

Yes. People criticized my posts on objectivism v. Catholicism. And my response was that the critics have zero knowledge of Catholic dogma. So now I'll wait and see what they've got.

Buckly J. Ewer
12-29-2015, 12:03 PM
Fuck the Catholic church...

Celticguy
12-29-2015, 12:10 PM
Yes. People criticized my posts on objectivism v. Catholicism. And my response was that the critics have zero knowledge of Catholic dogma. So now I'll wait and see what they've got.

I see. Thank you.

PostmodernProphet
12-29-2015, 12:58 PM
sounds good.....were there supposed to be issues?......

christiefan915
12-29-2015, 05:35 PM
sounds good.....were there supposed to be issues?......

Yes. It's a primer for know-it-all dolts like ILoveAmeriKKKa and KKKaz.

PostmodernProphet
12-29-2015, 07:43 PM
Yes. It's a primer for know-it-all dolts like ILoveAmeriKKKa and KKKaz.

oh, I thought it was for the dimwit liberals who thought Christianity was spread by the sword......