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Catholic social teaching has long affirmed the existence of sinful social structures but without describing them or how they operate. This article reviews magisterial teaching on sinful social structures and turns to critical realist sociology for an analysis of structures as having causal influence through the free choices of persons within them.
Pope Francis has written frequently about structures of sin that have led to environmental degradation, economic inequality, and racism. In an address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, he summarized his reflections in Laudato Si’ on social sin and its impact on our common home:
2 lis 2015 · Other theologians came to use “structural sin” or “social sin” to describe other evils such as racism and the subordination of women, and the concept was taken up by official Catholic teaching (notably in John Paul II’s Reconciliatio et Paenitentia and Sollicitudo Rei Socialis). The term became part of the common tongue of Catholic ...
The concept of social sin has firm roots in the Gospel. Christ indicated very clearly at Matthew 25:31-46 that nations will be judged on the manner in which they have treated the weakest, poorest, and most abused.
26 maj 2006 · Every sin is personal under a certain aspect; under another, every sin is social, insofar as and because it also has social consequences. In its true sense, sin is always an act of the person, because it is the free act of an individual person and not properly speaking of a group or community.
Ignatius’s understanding of sin would have been more individual and act-oriented. His own battles with scrupulosity taught him that obsessing with particular actions did not lead to peace or bring him closer to God.
28 lut 2022 · The Catholic Tradition. A concern with social sin is very traditional for Catholics, however. As the Catechism says: The consequences of original sin and of all men’s personal sins put the world as a whole in the sinful condition aptly described in St. John’s expression, “the sin of the world.”
