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Pope Benedict XVI, 2

Episodes

Here, we delve into how Catholic teachings tackle the messiness of the modern world—not by preaching, but by seeking to spark action. It’s a rallying point for those ready to turn faith into tangible change. We are at the intersection of spirituality and societal impact.

CAPP-turing TRUTH: A CATHOLIC VISION FOR TODAY’S WORLD

The Church's Condemnation of Abortion

by CAPP-USA | Contemporary Issues

PILLARS OF MERCY: CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING PRINCIPLES REVEALED

PAPAL WISDOM UNPACKED: ENCYCLICALS IN FOCUS

Laudato Si Summary

by CAPP-USA | Encyclical Summaries

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PAPAL WISDOM UNPACKED: ENCYCLICALS IN FOCUS

Laudato Si Summary

by CAPP-USA | Encyclical Summaries

This article outlines Pope Francis’s views on LGBT individuals and gender ideology, emphasizing his pastoral approach to the former while expressing strong concerns about the latter. The Pope distinguishes between pastoral care for LGBT individuals and what he terms “gender ideology,” advocating for accompaniment and care for those with “wounded and troubled love.” Regarding gender ideology, Pope Francis views it as a dangerous “ideological colonization” that “cancels out differences” between men and women. He argues that this erasure of difference undermines humanity and the richness of both genders. The text contrasts this with the Church’s teaching on the inherent goodness of being created male and female. Finally, it briefly presents core Catholic social teaching principles like human dignity, solidarity, and subsidiarity as foundational.

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Laudato Si Summary

by CAPP-USA | Encyclical Summaries

This article outlines Pope Francis’s views on LGBT individuals and gender ideology, emphasizing his pastoral approach to the former while expressing strong concerns about the latter. The Pope distinguishes between pastoral care for LGBT individuals and what he terms “gender ideology,” advocating for accompaniment and care for those with “wounded and troubled love.” Regarding gender ideology, Pope Francis views it as a dangerous “ideological colonization” that “cancels out differences” between men and women. He argues that this erasure of difference undermines humanity and the richness of both genders. The text contrasts this with the Church’s teaching on the inherent goodness of being created male and female. Finally, it briefly presents core Catholic social teaching principles like human dignity, solidarity, and subsidiarity as foundational.

Read the Article

Laudato Si Summary

by CAPP-USA | Encyclical Summaries

This article outlines Pope Francis’s views on LGBT individuals and gender ideology, emphasizing his pastoral approach to the former while expressing strong concerns about the latter. The Pope distinguishes between pastoral care for LGBT individuals and what he terms “gender ideology,” advocating for accompaniment and care for those with “wounded and troubled love.” Regarding gender ideology, Pope Francis views it as a dangerous “ideological colonization” that “cancels out differences” between men and women. He argues that this erasure of difference undermines humanity and the richness of both genders. The text contrasts this with the Church’s teaching on the inherent goodness of being created male and female. Finally, it briefly presents core Catholic social teaching principles like human dignity, solidarity, and subsidiarity as foundational.

Read the Article

Laudato Si Summary

by CAPP-USA | Encyclical Summaries

This article outlines Pope Francis’s views on LGBT individuals and gender ideology, emphasizing his pastoral approach to the former while expressing strong concerns about the latter. The Pope distinguishes between pastoral care for LGBT individuals and what he terms “gender ideology,” advocating for accompaniment and care for those with “wounded and troubled love.” Regarding gender ideology, Pope Francis views it as a dangerous “ideological colonization” that “cancels out differences” between men and women. He argues that this erasure of difference undermines humanity and the richness of both genders. The text contrasts this with the Church’s teaching on the inherent goodness of being created male and female. Finally, it briefly presents core Catholic social teaching principles like human dignity, solidarity, and subsidiarity as foundational.

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Purpose

Pope St. John Paul II established CAPP —
“to promote and defend the knowledge and the practice of the Church’s social doctrine.”

Message to the Members of the “Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice” Foundation​

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Three Key Principles

Catholic social teaching is built on three foundational principles – Human Dignity, Solidarity and Subsidiarity. Human Dignity, embodied in a correct understanding of the human person, is the greatest. The others flow from it. Good governments and good economic systems find ways of fostering the three principles: “The State must contribute to the achievement of these goals both directly and indirectly. Indirectly and according to the principle of subsidiarity, by creating favorable conditions for the free exercise of economic activity, which will lead to abundant opportunities for employment and sources of wealth. Directly and according to the principle of solidarity, by defending the weakest” (Pope St. John Paul II, 15)

Human Dignity

This means a correct understanding of the human person and of each person’s unique value. All Catholic social teaching flows from this: the inherent dignity of every person that comes from being made in God’s image. This is “the basis not only of the unity of the human family but also of our inviolable human dignity” (Pope Benedict XVI) and it is in this beginning that human rights are grounded.

Solidarity

Solidarity is not “a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of others. It is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good” (Pope St. John Paul II, 38). Love of God and love of neighbor are, in fact, linked and form one, single commandment. “We cannot believe in God the Father without seeing a brother or sister in every person, and we cannot follow Jesus without giving our lives for those for whom he died on the cross.” (Pope Francis)

Subsidiarity

Subsidiarity identifies how decisions in society need to be taken at the lowest competent level. “It is a fundamental principle of social philosophy, fixed and unchangeable, that one should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry. So, too, it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and a disturbance of right order to transfer to the larger and higher collectivity functions which can be performed and provided for by the lesser and subordinate bodies”. (Pope Pius XI, 79)

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