Catholic Social Teaching: Called to Charity and Justice

Everybody knows that the Catholic Church does great works of charity. But did you know social justice is a necessary part of our faith?
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[@stanblackburn700]

Catholic Social Teaching is a critical part of being Catholic; it is an essential part of loving our neighbor as ourselves. Well done, Br. Casey.

[@frodobaggins1632]

Stan Blackbur

[@kayhupfermarren5222]

This is excellent. I'm using it in my HS Catholic Faith class today as I continue to talk about social justice. I always use the Dom Helder Camara quote, as well as the story of the person saving the drowning people. (great minds...) Nice to have a video say it. kids don't always have to listen to me! Also love that you put the Glenn Beck clip in here. It's another springboard for discussion. Blessings!

[@edwardbaker1331]

This is evil. Moral justice, which is obviously good because it requires individual virtue responding to moral imperatives, is not "social justice" which is a demonically evil and anti-Christian concept predicated on the notion that evil is impersonal, requiring elitists to engineer its extinction by ruling society through progressive tyrannies, including a reordering of fundamental concepts of right and wrong as they see fit. Those who believe in social justice categorically reject the Sermon on the Mount. They do so in order to avoid personal moral accountability while thinking of their intentions as benign.

[@jamesmanship1070]

Well done------justice first - when justice falls short, charity.

[@delvingeorge2807]

Search for Cardinal virtues. It goes hand in hand if one goes down every other virtue goes down. Theological virtues keeps these in Check.

[@leifewald5117]

I was confirmed into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil!! I’m Catholic now!! Vive Cristo Rey!!

[@fuzzbutt_avery]

The importance of justice within Catholic scripture made me realize that God doesn't hate me and He allows for others to inflict hate on me but does not want me to be oppressed.

[@pianoplayer7577]

Great video! Thank you for showing the true nature of the Church's stance on social justice. It's sad to see that not everyone can tell the difference between charity and justice. Charity changes one person, justice changes the world. Justice is charity on an exponential level. Everything you mentioned in your video I believe is common sense as being a Catholic. Those who attack your viewpoints most likely are those who aren't able to offer social justice, or are in need of such great amounts of charity that it causes them to be embarrassed and lash out at those who label them as being "poor" or "in need." Thank you again for your great videos. Don't let anyone take away from what your doing. The devil loves to attack those who profess the truth in Christ and spread His teachings.

[@dinoclasher4129]

oml ty you gave my the answer to my HW

[@tmoney8819]

Explain MLK’s use of the four principles of Catholic social teaching, giving an example of MLK’s use of each principle?

[@edwardbaker1331]

You're very wrong and so is Father Casey. Moral justice, which is obviously good because it requires individual virtue responding to moral imperatives, is not "social justice" which is a demonically evil and anti-Christian concept predicated on the notion that evil is impersonal, requiring elitists to engineer its extinction by ruling society through progressive tyrannies, including a reordering of fundamental concepts of right and wrong as they see fit. Those who believe in social justice categorically reject the Sermon on the Mount. They do so in order to avoid personal moral accountability while believing their intentions as benign. Do you really believe "social justice" advocates easily become child abusers and rationalizers of programs of mass murder by accident? Pretentions of Justice destroys the world. God only allows us an ability of personalism.

[@michelevicente3373]

This is very useful to my CST lesson for SHS. THANK YOU!

[@NequeNon]

Social Justice is another of the great teachings of the Church. We see today how the pro life movement in the Church has been a powerful voice of social justice for the most vulnerable of all people in society. The term was coined in 19th century Catholic circles in Europe and quickly developed, largely thanks to neo-scholastics of the Era (especially in Germany and Italy and eventually France). The Pecci brothers would become advocates of SJ, where one would become the magnificent Pope Leo XIII who laid some important concepts of social and distributive justice in his landmark encyclical “Rerum Novarum”. Despite his aristocratic persona, Pope Leo was loved by the working man, and at least on his native Italy, was known as a working man’s Pope because of his care and concern for the justice owed to the most vulnerable social classes. Leo XIII’s work would be massively influential in 20th century Catholic (orthodox) Christian democracy movements. Men like De Gasperi, Jacques Mauritian, Schuman etc founders of solid Christian democracy would go back to encyclicals like Rerum Novarum (and updates by successive Popes) as guidelines. However and very unfortunately social justice has been hijacked in the 20th century and anybody familiar with the Marxists movements in Europe in the ‘68 revolution and various “Eurocommunist” movements are familiar with this. The Great Ven. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, seeing the flawed and un-Catholic usurpation of this term led him to famously say: Judas Iscariot is the patron “Saint” of Social Justice. I don’t agree with Glenn Beck, on so much, even on first principles, however I do actually understand where he’s coming from. Its with great sadness that I feel it necessary to say that any discussion on social justice today, requires an awareness of the perversion of the teaching that has happened both within and outside the Church. Though not all, some mainstream liberation theology movements have adopted a vision of humanity, so focused on “social justice” that it denies the greater importance of the soul over the body. St John Paul II, in particular, had to deal with this and sometimes it wasn’t pretty...it pains me that it even had to happen in the first place. Some wanted a reconciliation between Marxism and Catholicism because some immediate common goals were shared, however the basic anthropologies of one and the other remained impossibly irreconcilable and mutually exclusive and some would refuse to accept some of these clear distinctions. I appreciate your video Deacon Casey. God Bless!

[@Blumjob1230]

Greetings Adque, I have heard this story several times, and want to know if there is a more scholarly source on it. Do you know of such a source? PAX, PDPB

[@TheLincolnrailsplitt]

Do you mean Catholic Social Teaching?

[@Nefertum1000]

This sets a clear example within the distinction of Charity and Justice. I also like Fr. Kennth Himes interpretation of some of the materials. Thank you Br. Casey good job.

[@BreakingInTheHabit]

+Francisco You're welcome!

[@MidActsPreacher]

“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

[@daithimcbuan5235]

There's nothing wrong with righting wrongs. Where it becomes a problem is when identity politics and group guilt become involves. That leads to fixing injustice with injustice. Since the 'Social Justice' label is most heavily associated with 3rd wave (4th wave according to some) Intersectional Feminism & the LGBTQIA+ lobby (sorry if I left out some letters), who deal in the abovementioned identity politics, and who tar all members of a group with the same brush, the kneejerk reaction to the term is therefore understandable. As a Cis Hetero White Male born in the late 20th Century, I don't appreciate being accused of things for which I have no guilt.

[@markdaniels1730]

If you're a Christian in the West you already believe you are guilty of something your ancestors did.

[@daithimcbuan5235]

@@markdaniels1730 a) Baptism erases original sin, though not b) our sinful nature that we inherited due to the fall. We as baptised Christians are not held responsible for a, but are culpable for anything we think, say or do under b. So no, I as a baptised Christian in the West do not believe that I am guilty of something my ancestors did.

[@markdaniels1730]

@@daithimcbuan5235 "I as a baptised Christian in the West do not believe that I am guilty of something my ancestors did." Maybe not now, but you were until you were baptised, so you do believe that you can inherit your ancestors guilt unless something is done about it.

[@daithimcbuan5235]

@@markdaniels1730 I don't actually. I believe that I inherited a sinful nature. Not guilt. One cannot live in the 21st century and take Genesis literally. Well, I suppose one could, but one would have to do a lot of mental gymnastics. So, considering you are hammering down on this point, let's say that hypothetically, your father committed murder... you'd be happy to go to prison for it? You do realise that I brought up worldly culpability and not spiritual or theological culpability, right? Even if we were, there is a difference between Original Sin and Personal Sin. Are you happy being punished for your parents', grandparents', great grandparents' and great great grandparents' sins? If my father unrepentantly committed the sin of gluttony, am I going to be punished for it? If my great great great great great great grandfather owned a slave, am I culpable? If so, then most people on the planet are culpable, seeing as slavery was normal in most (not all) societies and cultures, including in the Bible. I inherited neither the worldly misdeeds nor the personal sins of my ancestors. Only their DNA and a sinful nature.

[@daithimcbuan5235]

@@jamama3 Sadly, yes. I look forward to Jesus' return.

[@jflaugher]

The reason we take care of the poor here and now, instead of waiting for the second coming, is that, as Christians, we're supposed to be living as if the second coming, the overthrow of the current evil system, and the establishment of the Kingdom of God are all already happening in the here and now. If you're a Christian you can't say, "the Kingdom of God will come in the future when Jesus returns." As a Christian, you're supposed to say, "The Kingdom of God is already here in our midst. The Kingdom of God is happening within us."

[@gahrzahk]

What people don't understand is that BOTH charity and social justice are the same thing, it's that when using the gospel as a guide, the first treats the effects; while the second treats the causes. If there are people in a certain community that are dying like flies, and a doctor goes to treat the sick individuals, that is charity. But if he / she finds that the reason for them being sick is because the food pantry is built right next to a cesspool, and as a healing physician orders the kitchen to be moved fifty meters upstream of that cesspool, that's social justice. It's inherently wrong to say, "Well, they're going to die anyways, so why make the move."

[@6williamson]

Isn't it cool to be part of an organization that can work with community leaders to prevent female circumcision on one day and another time pray at an abortion clinic and be in perfect community with both works? Following Christ is truly an adventure!

[@PitaBorges]

Thanks for sharing. Paz e bem!

[@drew.theriault18]

Anyone else watching in religious studies?

[@fuzzbutt_avery]

I'm studying for my midterm

[@FromAcrossTheDesert]

The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ God does not ask us to love the world. Why? because We are not God. We are asked to love the person right beside us. (our neighbor). We are in solidarity with following the commandment, but keep in mind that the command itself cries out for subsidiarity. I told my daughter today. You speak about the middle east and blame one side for all the problems and you talk about social justice, but the fact is that you cannot make peace with your sister who sleeps in the same room. SHE is you neighbor; and if you cannot make peace in your own room, how is it that you think you can achieve peace in the middle east.

[@mathias3067]

online school.

[@dinoclasher4129]

lmoa fax

[@6williamson]

sometimes we bring fish, sometimes we teach how to fish. In other words, sometimes we bring the love of God to those in need, and sometimes we bring God himself-- and we, in turn, become unnecessary.

[@mohamedlaloe9643]

Good blesing voor mi a ged head hek

[@BLACK.ANGEL.]

1:49... forgotten by many

[@mcmemmo]

Love this series!

[@Spectre2434]

How would you address a Catholic like Bill Buckley?

[@lordscrubington3897]

> no mention of Charles Coughlin

[@thomasreiter5072]

Paragraph 186 of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Fratelli Tutti uses what seems to be a strikingly similar example as you do here - a bridge - to illustrate how charity functions on both an individual and social/political level. The facts in the example are not exactly the same and your video is discussing justice, not charity per se, but the concepts are closely linked as Ken Himes explains. But, alas, while Pope Francis cites to Thomas Aquinas, no mention anywhere in the encyclical’s footnotes of Breaking in the Habit. Anyway, terrific job, and I hope you do something on the new encyclical and explore further the point, made explicitly in this video, and implicitly throughout the encyclical, that the Social Teachings are constitutive of Catholicism.

[@VictorSanchez-kx5hb]

Socialism/Social Justice same thing. Never ends well for us Catholics. But, im kind of biased sinse my family expirienced the Cristero War in Mexico my father warned me about the Socialist and to keep Vigilant.

[@_I.-_-.I_]

Am I the only one jumped out when the intro music blast

[@mriyamkm8605]

❤

[@petecurran9700]

I believe there is too much emphasis on talk and not enough on gifts of charity.

[@TheLincolnrailsplitt]

Social justice goes way beyond charity according to some Catholics' perspective.

[@pagesharp]

I have never been judged by by a church which are charities ever in my Life until today The woman that called me from Catholic charities in Kentucky was very rude and judgmental and acting As if I'm not good enough to get help from them

[@1973Washu]

Matthew 6:2 , You will never hear about someone who righteously fights for justice from themselves. Self promotion and social justice are incompatible. You might hear about them from others but never from themselves.

[@paulhurley9475]

This is great for use in class. However, Brother Casey, why did you take what is usually presented at the seventh and place it as the first? All of these seem to flow from our God-given human dignity.

[@BreakingInTheHabit]

For Franciscans it makes more sense to remember that everything flows from God being creator rather than us. It places us within creation rather than creation as an afterthought, and keeps God (the creator) as the central focus rather than how everything relates to us.

[@VanillaEarth744]

@@BreakingInTheHabit God Willing you answer. So which one would be justice. Going outside a abortion clinic and praying the Rosary or giving money to organizations etc so they can help stop abortion or neither???

[@Liquidforce360]

You're confused. When there are enough doctors to treat every life-threatening illness, then you'd be right to worry about their sprained ankle, but if the patients are dropping dead all around you, you're better off doing triage & 1st saving the life. Souls are falling into hell like snowflakes according to Our Lady of Fatima, so as a spiritual doctor you need to focus on the soul more than the body, which will pass away anyway. Suffering brings people to Christ. Its hardships & chastisement that the Lord Himself brings on His people to call them back to Him as depicted in the Old Testament. This is the same God of the new covenant & therefore He WILL do it again. To deny this is to fall into Marcionism. You'd know that if you were more traditionally formed, but you'll be held to the same standard.

[@lemonprime7889]

I'm afraid I don't understand that last point. Just because God took on a material life, the material life matters? When God took on flesh, he surely defecated. I suppose poop matters too? This argument seems flimsy and not well put-together.

[@Enne_esse]

If Glenn Beck says to do something, do the opposite. He's a dark soul.

[@deividmeloti]

What can you talk about who suffers vocational crisis? I did not find my yet. I'm from Brazil

[@ESTUDIANTESelpincha]

+Deivid Melo You're talking about choosing careers or about to engage or not the religious life? I'm from Argentina you can speak portuguese.

[@BreakingInTheHabit]

+Deivid Melo I'm not sure exactly what you're talking talking about. Are you discerning now or are you asking about a general question?

[@deividmeloti]

+ESTUDIANTES EL PINCHA Eu já sou de dentro da igreja, porém ainda não conseguir achar minha vocação. Aqui chamamos isso de crise vocacional. exemplo de vocação: Ordem Franciscana, Servo da Igreja, Padre, ou participar de outras comunidades Católicas.

[@deividmeloti]

+Breaking In The Habit I already am Church Inside , however NOT Getting find my vocation . Here we call vocational crisis IT. Example Vocation: Franciscan Order , Servant of the Church, Father , or participate in other Catholic communities. Translated by Google Translator

[@RedRiverMan]

Vocation crisis is a problem in the west and not the problem of the Universal church properly. Asia and Africa regularly hav to turn away entrants to religious life because there are too many. Why is this never discussed in Western catholic circles? It is Europe and the formerly European colonised world that has this problem so we should rightly start with the question of why are western and mostly White countries losing the faith?

[@leonmihalic4938]

Do you know any economics? Are you sure you understand World around you? Before you start "fixing the world" by implementing "social justice" you should first understand it.

[@Traditional_American]

Hence why they are called communists as stated at 7:43 private charity is a good thing and should be encouraged, however forcing everyone else to be charitable via taxes and causing inflation in order to pay for social/welfare programs is a very bad idea. There was a reason why the founding fathers had a separation of church and state.

[@HolyKhaaaaan]

The vast majority of structures of sin has nothing to do with economics per se. The vast majority are disparate and natural, not arising from a conspiracy. Consider the Western problem of loneliness. Some people might save that the root of a lot of things that cause loneliness - such as pornography, information technology, social media, and general cultural norms - ultimately have their roots in the almighty dollar. But in order to sell a product, you need to know something that people want. There needs to be a reason for people to want what you are selling for them to buy it. People by pornography, for instance, not because it's being sold to them, but because it is a cheap and effective way to feel connected. And for some reason we feel like we don't have the time or the energy to develop actual relationships, so pornography becomes attractive for dealing with our emotions. The same is true of social media. When you get likes on Facebook or retweets on Twitter, you feel like people are listening to you and agreeing with you. It's easier to do than actually going and visiting a friend. Economics did not create human desires for convenience, effectiveness, and basically laziness. Economics cannot be blamed for the biggest, most common, and most intimate of structures of sin. The most basic, prevalent, and intimate of structures of sin is simply original sin. And neither the government nor economics can solve that alone.

[@lefaaleanga269]

Where are all the memes. What are memes to Cathlics?

[@NoName-nq1ye]

poopy poopy poopy

[@freedomfields5569]

As a Catholic, I am disgusted with this video. You not only make a very poor argument in response to the current evens, but you are pushing a one sided view while cherry picking "evidence". What you basically said was BLM was right in doing all they did, that one group of people owes another in the name of "Justice", and that I am not a Catholic nor part of the Catholic community if I do not believe what you are saying. That is not justice. Repairing a bridge so people will no longer drown is charity. There is no justice in doing good for others, there is charity and love.

[@BreakingInTheHabit]

Hi Victoria. I'm not sure if I understand what you're saying. This is a very general video about Catholic Social Teaching, not about any specific issue. It is entirely possible that we are operating with different definitions of the word "justice," but I can assure you that everything in this video comes directly from official Catholic documents and authorities. Justice as a concept is one that the Church has written about extensively in the past 200 years, and of which saints like Thomas Aquinas and Augustine were very emphatic about.

[@tortatorte7469]

No Victoria, you are not Catholic!

[@chusty93]

And this, my friends, is a perfect example of not paying attention properly to a video nor understanding it, then building a giant strawman and shooting it down with a gun

[@TheLincolnrailsplitt]

@@tortatorte7469 Really? How 'judgemental' of you. 😥😫

[@IAmisMaster]

6:30 Justice is NOT an extension of charity or acts of mercy. That is the most unbiblical thing ever. Jesus received God's justice on the cross...God's wrath...so we might receive mercy. Charity has never been included as part of justice or law. You are blurring the lines to promote atheist progressivism.

[@BreakingInTheHabit]

There is nothing atheistic of progressive about this. The concept of justice is all throughout the Bible and has been a major part of Catholic teaching for centuries. You can find St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Ignatius of Loyola, and all of the popes from 1891 on writing extensively about it. If you would like to know more, let me know.

[@IAmisMaster]

Breaking In The Habit I remember St. Thomas Aquinas talking about just war and capital punishment for the heretic...I don't remember anything about socialism. You've been lied to.

[@BreakingInTheHabit]

A few things: 1. No one said anything about socialism, in this video or in Thomas Aquinas, so there's no reason for you to remember it. 2. Thomas Aquinas, although a prolific and important theologian, is a theologian and not the official magisterial teaching of the Church. Much of what he wrote has been included in the official teaching, but much of what he wrote has been excluded, and more importantly, many things he did not write have been included. Just because Thomas Aquinas didn't write something doesn't mean it isn't Church teaching. 3. That being said, Thomas DID in fact write about justice, so maybe you need a closer read! (ST II-II q57-62) Not only does he speak of justice in the general sense, but also calling for the need for commutative and distributive justice. 4. The official teachings of the Catholic Church have an entire section on social teaching. If you have any questions, you can consult the Bishops' website: www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/

[@herc358]

You are seriously misguided if you think God punished Jesus for our sins. Jesus was perfect. He did not sin. But he gave as a sacrifice his holy and perfect body to his father as just recompense for our sins. In short, he paid our debt, a debt we could never pay ourselves. The Lamb to be sacrificed must be unblemished. God the Father did not execute Jesus for our crimes, He did not display his wrath in the brutal death our Lord suffered. On the contrary, he displayed his great love for mankind. Jesus of his own will, laid down his life and by his own power raised himself up again, and through his own power ascended into heaven, so that we may have eternal life for those who believe him.

[@josephchapman9575]

You do not believe that on the cross; justice and mercy kissed?

[@justifiably_stupid4998]

This is how a religion becomes a cult

[@BreakingInTheHabit]

Brian By putting what they believe in action and working to build a better society for all, not just themselves? I think this is actually the very opposite of a cult...