1. Caritas in Veritate
Opening our minds to love,
Opening our love to truth
Prepared by: Ysabel Alexandra Herrera

2. What is it?
 Encyclical,
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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.
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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
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
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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)
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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

41. Conclusion
 Christian
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humanism:
Enkindles charity
Takes lead from truth
Both are lasting gifts from God

42. The End