{"title":"Applied Catholic Social Teaching: Preferential option for the poor and Catholic schools","authors":"S. McKinney","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2023.2175531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2023.2175531","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Many of the Catholic schools established in the nineteenth century had an explicit mission to the poor. This mission was integral to the aims of Catholic schools, aims that included promoting literacy and numeracy and ensuring the inculcation of the Catholic faith and culture in further generations. By the late twentieth century, care for the poor and the preferential option for the poor described the mission to the poor in Catholic schools. The term the preferential option for the poor originated in Liberation Theology within a very specific sociological and ecclesial context, but the understanding of the term deepened as a key theme in Catholic social teaching. This article examines some key Vatican documents on Catholic education in the Conciliar and post Conciliar period and focuses on the strengths and limitations of the vision and implementation of the care for the poor or preferential option for Catholic schools.","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"23 1","pages":"31 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47332916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distinguishing teaching and theology: a review essay","authors":"P. Riordan","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2023.2182476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2023.2182476","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"23 1","pages":"63 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46336410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading with earth: contributions of the new materialism to an ecological feminist hermeneutics","authors":"K. Wills","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2023.2167443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2023.2167443","url":null,"abstract":"to bring all life systems, human and non-human, back into balance’ (p.103). Although the inevitable imbalance that results from the comparison of two such different bodies of work needs to be acknowledged, and the lack of a reference to children in the Index indicates a poignant lacuna in both discourses, this excellent book is precisely the kind of research that is essential to enable religious-secular collaborations develop the new vision of development, and the accompanying transformative action, our world so badly needs.","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"23 1","pages":"70 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41324531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The church, human rights and democracy in Africa","authors":"M. H. Kukah","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2023.2182472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2023.2182472","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although the relationship of Catholic mission to colonialism in Africa is a controversial one, it cannot be denied that the Church was instrumental in the progress of African peoples and nations. Drawing inspiration and guidance from the corpus of Catholic Social Teaching, the Church plays a key role in continuing to inspire Africans to the higher goals of human rights and Democracy. A Catholic social imagination, through which Catholics communicate the social demands of their faith as they engage social questions and envision social possibilities in Africa’s pluralist societies, needs to be promoted. The task before the Catholic Church in Africa is to move this rich deposit of faith from being the Church’s best-kept secret to the marketplace of ideas that can constitute the moral foundation for our politics. Helping to frame the moral direction of public policy in the various young or tottering democracies in Africa is a noble vocation that makes the Church remain a critical collaborator in building sustainable and just democratic cultures on the continent.","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"23 1","pages":"48 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45287039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 8th Work of Mercy ‘To care for our common home’: Initial exploration of the contribution of food gardening within and by Christian communities in the Quest for Sustainable Food Justice","authors":"E. Stichel","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2023.2168860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2023.2168860","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 2016, Pope Francis complemented the seven works of mercy, including ‘feeding the hungry’ with an eighth one, following his encyclical Laudato si’: ‘Let us be merciful to our common home.’ While ending hunger is an SDG-goal, the impact of climate change makes it abundantly clear the need for sustainable food justice. Across the globe, projects are emerging to implement this food justice. As an illustration, we could refer to the increasing interest in forest/food gardening. Although no credit is due to Christianity, in the Low Countries we notice how monasteries and abbeys explicitly subscribe to this trend. In this contribution, I want to link such initiatives to Catholic social thought, focusing on its implications for the discussion on the distinction between charity and justice on the one hand, and the notion of ‘integral ecology’ on the other, and how individual Christians and communities can play a prophetic role.","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"23 1","pages":"18 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47484784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catholic Social Teaching: a trickle-up response to poverty?","authors":"P. Kelly","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2022.2147769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2022.2147769","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, I offer a concise historical overview of the context in which Catholic Social Teaching developed. A necessarily brief account of nineteenth-century Social Catholics in France, Belgium, and the Rhineland demonstrates how three of the four principles of Catholic Social Teaching – solidarity, the common good, and human dignity – were already present in this endeavour. I then turn to the ideas of Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, Bishop of Mainz, and his development of the concept of subsidiarity, which provides the fourth pillar of Catholic Social Teaching, differentiating it from broader Christian teachings to ‘do good’. Subsidiarity enables people and communities to pursue actions and policies which are best for them, thus providing a trickle-up response to poverty, environmental crises, and other socio-economic emergencies.","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"23 1","pages":"206 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59862715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catholic social teaching and the peripheries: the case for addressing prostitution","authors":"Patricia Jones","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2022.2150459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2022.2150459","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Catholic social teaching (CST) has shown little interest in structural and social forces that impact negatively on the dignity and flourishing of women. Such inattention diminishes CST's credibility and neglects its liberative potential. This article examines an area of structural violence against women, the social reality of prostitution, to illuminate the imperative to expand normative CST to address specific experiences of women. Given the inadequacy of the Catechism's treatment of prostitution as an area of personal moral failing, a reading which fails to understand how cultural and legislative structures bear down on women's freedom and agency, a task for CST emerges. When CST principles are brought into dialogue with empirical attention to women's experience of prostitution, the tradition stands in solidarity with those who inhabit an existential and social periphery. The article argues that CST perspectives should nudge the Catholic Church towards proposing an abolitionist ethic in relation to prostitution.","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"23 1","pages":"3 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43175041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Masters or slaves? AI and the future of humanity","authors":"E. Stoddart","doi":"10.1080/1474225x.2022.2147768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225x.2022.2147768","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"23 1","pages":"291 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45507780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Living by the staff: a perspective on episcopacy and authority","authors":"Michael Jackson","doi":"10.1080/1474225x.2022.2111161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225x.2022.2111161","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper sets out a range of challenges facing ministry in today’s increasingly regulated church contexts. Noting the three foci of prophet, priest and king in the Christian’s self-understanding as a disciple of Jesus Christ, the paper goes on to make the case for looking afresh at the prophetic role of the bishop as a member of the community of faith. The bishop, it is argued, speaks from within the community of the church, as the church seeks to engage fruitfully with the world outside the confines of the church. A reassessment of the use of the imagery of the rod and the staff from psalm 23 in the life of episcopacy is offered as the paper explores the sacramentality of ordination.","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"23 1","pages":"74 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41472701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Sorrow Comes: The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter","authors":"R. Gillies","doi":"10.1080/1474225x.2023.2175534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225x.2023.2175534","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"22 1","pages":"366 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48675858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}