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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 ...
29 cze 2020 · When you see, for example, images of black people as slaves, domestics, and gang members day after day and year after year, these portrayals work their way into our psyche and unintentionally...
1 wrz 2022 · When considering the history of race and the Catholic Church, specifically the black American community and the American Catholic Church, one cannot help but wonder why there was so little social consciousness among everyday Catholics in the United States regarding racism.
Notable quotations from Catholic social teaching on the theme of Racism, Inclusion, and Diversity (sex, race, color, language or religion.)
For example: Men need to understand the frustration of women who cannot achieve economic equity in society, despite equal training and hard work. Anglos need to understand the debilitating effects of racism on an African American’s selfesteem before black and white persons can move together to address the structural roots of racism.
4 wrz 2020 · There is a trauma caused by enduring and witnessing brutality against Black Catholics, as if we were not part of the body of Christ. As we pronounce in the creed, “We believe in one God”: Unity is one of the greatest graces against this social sin in our midst.
19 cze 2023 · Catholic teaching has typically failed to treat social structure as a distinct category with its own causal force, but, drawing from critical realist ontology, I treat agency, structure, and culture as distinct but mutually conditioning categories of social reality.
