“Marriage…transcends the feelings and momentary needs of the couple…it is not born ‘of loving sentiment, but from the depth of the obligation'” (Pope Francis)
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What is Ecology?
When the Church speaks of ecology, she is referencing the relationship between us and our physical environment and our human environment.
Social Justice Issues and CST
Social justice is what results when “associations or individuals…obtain what is their due, according to their nature and their vocation.”
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While there are individuals and organizations devoted to the care of our physical environment and others devoted to the more important human environment, the Church has made clear: “Our duties towards the environment are linked to our duties towards the human person”.
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Capitalism has proven to be the greatest poverty relief program the world has ever known, but Pope Francis echoes that there this is no reason for free market triumphalism as “It is a well-known fact that…millions of people are still suffering and dying of starvation” while our culture deadens us to the problem.
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“Concretely, in economic activity” this means that business women and men “engage in economic activity for the sake of the common good and they experience this commitment as something transcending their self-interest, for the benefit of present and future generations.”
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Simply, but elegantly put: consumerism is a style of life directed towards “having” rather than “being”. It is a “web of false and superficial gratifications.” (Pope St. John Paul II)
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While alienation exists in different forms, “there is no worse form of alienation than to feel uprooted, belonging to no one.” (Pope Francis) What are two dangerous forms of alienation?
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Radical Secularism is driven by this skeptical relativism which basically holds that there is no such thing as an objective truth. There’s just what I believe, you believe, a group, a nation believes; nothing is objectively true.
