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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Catholic social teaching"”.
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Beyond ethical reflections : neo-liberalism, idolatry and Canadian catholic social teaching
… government restraint, is the only path to human social and economic fulfillment. Canadian Catholic social teaching has approached neo-liberalism through the door of social ethics. However, some liberation and critical theologians believe that neo-liberalism contains a covert religious dimension …
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Exploring Undergraduate Understanding and Learning of Catholic Social Teaching in Catholic Higher Education
… the Second Vatican Council in the mid-1960s, Catholic higher education (CHE) has wrestled with its Catholic identity in a changing landscape and changing world (Gallin, 1996, 2000; Gleason, 1995; Morey & Piderit, 2006). A big component of this identity-recognition process is the continued …
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Exploring Catholic Social Teaching in Diocese of Austin Catholic High Schools: A Constructive Grounded Theory
… has shown a positive relationship between Catholic high school graduates and civic participation, including volunteering, voting, and civic engagement, in young adults. While there are multiple variables that have been considered as possible reasons for this positive relationship, Catholic …
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Catholic Social Teaching and The Capability Approach to Human Development: A Critical Analysis and Constructive Proposal
… dissertation is to present the argument that Catholic Social Teaching's focus on integral human flourishing can offer theoretical input to the field of Human Development as well as practical contributions to social and political initiatives currently underway. The most powerful vehicle of …
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A Model for Humane Economic Development: Hernando de Soto, Property Rights, and the Preferential Option for the Poor
… of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, and Catholic social teaching in order to assist people in less developed nations (LDCs) to escape the cycle of poverty. The dissertation argues that Hernando de Soto's insights to protect property rights, in conjunction with the Catholic Church's …
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Solidarity with outsiders: The quest for common ground in theological ethics
… of the marginalized and the oppressed. Roman Catholic social teaching and Sharon Welch's communicative ethics are compared with the communitarian positions of Stanley Hauerwas and James McClendon on solidarity. Descriptions of relationships with world and outsiders prepare or deny the …
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Collaborative Justice: An Analysis of the Use of "Justice" in the Writings of Lisa Sowle Cahill
… explores the role of justice in the writings of Catholic ethicist Lisa Sowle Cahill. Since 1990, Cahill has supported theological voices participating in the public forum, which she describes as a meeting ground for diverse intellectual and religious traditions. Good argumentation is necessary …
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Homosexuality and the Formation of Conscience: An Examination of Traditional Catholic Anthropological, Theological, and Ethical Evaluations in Light of Contemporary Moral Markers
… according to the established tradition of the Catholicism, requires the Church to follow the safest course of action, i.e., upholding the traditional heterosexual norm. Given that some individuals experience an irreversible homosexual orientation coupled by a lack of a vocation to a celibate …
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Visit the Imprisoned: A Heuristic Inquiry into the Experiences of Catholic Detention Ministry Volunteers
… this study sought to explore the experiences of Catholic detention ministry volunteers. Through a heuristic methodology and with the theoretical underpinnings of Critical Pedagogy, Catholic Social Teaching, Liberation Theology, and Restorative Justice, I gathered data–the reflections, …
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"Nun, Married, Old Maid": Kate O'Brien's Fiction, Women and Irish Catholicism
… the framework of the Family, as well as the social, cultural and religious background of this period, focusing particularly on the influence of Catholicism on women’s roles as wives and mothers in Irish society. O’Brien provided a powerful dramatisation of the lives of women that were …
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Solidarity According to the Thought of Fr. Pedro Arrupe and Its Application to Jesuit Higher Education Today
… chapter examines solidarity as an element of Catholic social teaching, which sets the historical and theological context for the rest of the dissertation. It briefly looks at the historical development of solidarity within papal encyclicals, as well as within selected contextual …
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A Study of the Principle of Subsidiarity in Catholic Social Thought: Implications for Social Justice and Civil Society in Nigeria
… centrality of the principle of subsidiarity in Catholic social teaching, in bringing about social and moral reconstruction of society and in particular the Nigerian social context. The origin of this principle has been traced to the natural human inclination to build a healthy relationship …
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An Assessment of David Hollenbach's Contribution to the Debate on Human Rights and its Future Promise
… to this discussion, the prominent Roman Catholic moral theologian, David Hollenbach, S.J.</p><p> The structure of this study is as follows: First, we present a theoretical account of the origins of human rights and a discussion of the current theoretical debates about rights. We then …
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An analysis of the socio-political role of the Roman Catholic Church in contemporary South Africa
… form and content of the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church in South Africa to the policy and practice of apartheid during the period 1948-1989. It is argued that the divisions, tensions and contradictions of the Catholic Church reflect the socially divided character of the broader society. …
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Beggars Can't Be Choosers or the Refugee as a Moral Agent?
This project considers the ways in which the dominant discourse on refugees might reinforce the negative impacts or limit the positive impacts of aid. Care for refugees is a difficult task that takes place in a discourse that begins with numerical calculi, a language that expresses ambivalence …
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