REPORTON MORAL ISSUES OF THE CHURCH: SOCIAL ANALYSIS

Report on social issues

1. SEM. FERNANDO PAUL “NANAN” JIMENEZ CASTRO, CY2

2. ABORTION

3. 1. ABORTION are unspeakable crimes“. (Gaudium et Spes, 51) “Abortion…is gravely contrary to the moral law“. (CCC, 2271) “A person who procures a completed abortion incurs a latae sententiae (automatic) excommunication.” (Code of Canon Law, 1398) “[T]he Church makes clear that abortion is a most serious and dangerous crime“. (Evangelium Vitae, 62) “The deliberate murder of an innocent person is gravely contrary to the dignity of the human being, to the golden rule, and to the holiness of the Creator. The law forbidding it is universally valid: it obliges each and every one, always and everywhere.” (CCC, 2261)

4. DIVORCE

5. 2. DIVORCE CCC 2384 : Divorce is a grave offense against the natural law. It claims to break the contract, to which the spouses freely consented, to live with each other till death. Divorce does injury to the covenant of salvation, of which sacramental marriage is the sign.

6. DRUGS

7. 3. DRUGS 2290: The virtue of temperance disposes us to  avoid every kind of excess : the abuse of food, alcohol, tobacco, or medicine. Those incur grave guilt who, by drunkenness or a love of speed, endanger their own and others' safety on the road, at sea, or in the air.

8. DRUGS “The use of drugs inflicts very grave damage on human health and life. Their use, except on strictly therapeutic grounds, is a grave offense. Clandestine production of and trafficking in drugs are scandalous practices. They constitute direct co-operation in evil, since they encourage people to practices gravely contrary to the moral law” (CCC, 2291).

9. HOMOSEXUALITY

10. 4. HOMOSEXUALITY “Basing itself on sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved” – CCC 2537

11. HOMOSEXUALITY CCC 2537-2359: “Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection”

12. CLIMATE CHANGE

13. 5. CLIMATE CHANGE “In his desire to have and to enjoy rather than to be and to grow, man consumes the resources of the earth and his own life in an excessive and disordered way…In this regard, humanity today must be conscious of its duties and obligations towards future generations.”  (Pope St. John Paul II, 37) “The earth is a precious gift of the Creator, who has designed its intrinsic order, thus giving us guidelines to which we must hold ourselves as stewards of his creation…In my recent Encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, I referred more than once to such questions.”  (Pope Benedict XVI) “ It is my hope that this Encyclical Letter ( Laudato Si’), which is now added to the body of the Church’s social teaching, can help us to acknowledge the appeal, immensity and urgency of the challenge we face.”  (Pope Francis, 15)

14. HUMAN TRAFFICKING

15. 6. HUMAN TRAFFICKING Commitment to end slavery in all its forms is rooted in the Catechism of the Church, which forbids any act leading to the enslavement of humans—a sin against a person's dignity and fundamental human rights ( CCC 2414 ).

16. CORRUPTION

17. 7. CORRUPTION The Church has drawn attention to the context and consequences of corruption by noting that “in every part of the world stark inequalities between developed and developing countries … inequalities marked by various forms of exploitation, oppression and corruption have a negative influence on the internal and international life of many States” ( Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church , 192).

18. CORRUPTION “Often, politics itself is responsible for the disrepute in which it is held, on account of corruption and the failure to enact sound public policies.” - Pope Francis,  Laudato Si’ , 197

19. GLOBAL POVERTY

20. 8. GLOBAL POVERTY CCC 2444: "The Church's love for the poor . . . is a part of her constant tradition." This love is inspired by the Gospel of the Beatitudes, of the poverty of Jesus, and of his concern for the poor. Love for the poor is even one of the motives for the duty of working so as to "be able to give to those in need." It extends not only to material poverty but also to the many forms of cultural and religious poverty.