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Catholic Social Teaching and Culture<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Consumerism<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Caring for Our Common Home<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Religion is the Foundation of Culture<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

We are Experiencing a Profound Human Crisis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Radical Secularism<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Alienation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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New Idols<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The Most Important\u00a0Structure of Society<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
We are experiencing a profound human crisis.<\/br>Our problems originate \u201cin the denial of the primacy of the human person!
We have created new idols.\"<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Pope Francis, 55<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Key Insight<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Pope St. John Paul II established the need to maintain vibrant and critical interaction among economics, culture, and politics, emphasizing that of these -\u00a0culture is the most important<\/strong>: \"All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.\" (Centesimus Annus, 51)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Man is understood in a more complete way when he is situated within the sphere of culture through his language, history, and the position he takes towards the fundamental events of life, such as birth, love, work and death.\"\u00a0(Centesimus Annus, 24)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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\"Man remains above all a being who seeks the truth and strives to live in that truth\u2026From this\u2026the culture of a nation derives its character.\"\u00a0(Centesimus Annus, 51)<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/span>\u00a0\"<\/span>At the heart of every culture lies the attitude man takes to the greatest mystery: the mystery of God. Different cultures are basically different ways of facing the question of the meaning of personal existence.\"\u00a0(Centesimus Annus, 24)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Integral Human Development<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

\"Development must not be understood solely in economic terms, but in a way that is fully human.\"\u00a0(Pope St. John Paul II, 29) <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\"[A]uthentic human development concerns the whole of the person in every single dimension.\"\u00a0(Pope Benedict XVI, 11)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\"[P]olitics and economy cannot be reduced to mere technical know-how bereft of ideals and unconcerned with the transcendent dimension of man...\"\u00a0(Pope Francis, 10)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\"The apex of development is the exercise of the right and duty to seek God, to know him and to live in accordance with that knowledge.\"\u00a0(Pope St. John Paul II, 29)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Religion and Culture<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

As Pope St. John Paul II pointed out:\u00a0Religion is at the foundation of culture<\/strong>.\u00a0Without religion society creates an illusion that God does not exist or can be restricted to the realm of purely private affairs. Catholic social teaching makes clear: the health of a\u00a0culture demands that religious values be part of the democratic debate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Absent that, \u201cpublic life is sapped of its motivation and politics takes on a domineering and aggressive character. Human rights risk being ignored\u201d. (Pope Benedict XVI, 56)<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery good and worthwhile human activity is in some way a reflection of God\u2019s infinite beauty.\u201d (Pope Leo XIV)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Pathologies in Our Culture<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Catholic social teaching points out four dangers or major \u2018risks and problems\u2019 in our current culture: (Click each to learn more)<\/em><\/p>\n