Posts Tagged ‘Globalization’

Overview of “Caritas in Veritate”

Jul 31, 2009

Integral human development is back in the news: By Kevin Dance, CP * Pope Benedict XVI explores the challenges of integral human development today in Caritas in Veritate. He uses the occasion of the 40th year since Paul VI issued his encyclical Populorum Progressio (On the Progress of Peoples) to recall its richness and reinforces its ... Read more

In Passion for Justice | Tagged Caritas in Veritate, Catholic Social Teaching, Charity in Truth, development, Globalization, Kevin Dance, love, Pope Benedict XVI, Populorum Progressio

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The “Consistent Ethic of Life” within the Global Economy: Chapter 2 of Caritas In Veritate

Jul 20, 2009

“Charity in Truth” is the latest encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI. This encyclical continues the tradition of Catholic Social Thought by addressing the issue of the Global Economic Crisis, Development, and Poverty. Yet there is a marked difference in this social encyclical that we who are Catholics in America need to attentive to. Pope Benedict ... Read more

In Passion for Justice | Tagged Cardinal Bernardin, Caritas in Veritate, Catholic Social Teaching, Consistent Ethic of Life, development, Economic Justice, Globalization, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Paul VI, poverty

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Globalization and the Passion

Apr 28, 2009

Globalization is a priori neither good nor bad. It is what people make of it. What is at stake is the quality of globalization. Likewise what is at stake is the quality of the contributions we bring. -Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, 2002 These comments by Archbishop ... Read more

In Passion for Justice | Tagged Catholic Social Teaching, Economic Justice, Globalization, Humanizing the Global Economy, investment, Passionist, Pope John Paul II, poverty, solidarity, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, trade, United Nations

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The Future of Capitalism

Apr 1, 2009

This week the G-20 is meeting in London to discuss a new global economic policy in light of the financial crisis. Wall Street is nervously observing these deliberations. We and the rest of civil society are also paying attention to this meeting. Many observers and policy analyst are having their doubts that anything positive will ... Read more

In Passion for Justice | Tagged Brookings Institute, Carnegie Endowment for Peace, Catholic Social Teaching, Economic Justice, Economic Justice For All, Financial Crisis, Financial Times, G-20, Globalization, IMF, Populorum Progressio, poverty, the future of capitalism, United States Catholic Conference of Bishops, World War II

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Passionist and Climate Change

Mar 12, 2009

It was Thomas Berry who first spoke of “The Passion of the Earth”. Climate change is becoming the fiercest example of the suffering implied in that term. Berry noted that the spirituality of the “memoria passionis” first expanded its range by seeing the sufferings of the poor and disenfranchised as sharing in the archetypal sufferings of ... Read more

In Passion for Justice | Tagged Climate Change, Gaia, global warming, Globalization, Integrity of Creation, Passionist, Paul Gilding, Thomas Berry, Thomas Friedman

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