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- Title
Social Justice as Environmental Justice. An interpretation of the Social Teaching of the Church from the practices.
- Authors
Otano Jiménez, Guillermo
- Abstract
The Social Teaching of the Church has a long and rich history which started in the middle of the nineteenth century, in a time characterised by the rise of industrial capitalism and the need to address the "social question" in most European societies. Since the very beginning it was understood by many as an attempt to interpret the idea of social justice through the prism of Catholic religion. However, an interpretation of this kind is not a theoretical exercise that can be detached from social reality, but a reflection on social reality that focuses the attention on the worldly life of those who suffer the injustice. In this sense, the doctrinal body of the Church is alive and constantly evolving to adapt the teachings of the Gospel to the "signs of time". The aim of this article is to analyse the practical implications of the recent developments in the interpretation of social justice made by the Social Teaching of the Church. I will do so focusing on two remarkable encyclicals: Populorum Progressio, which this year celebrates its fiftieth anniversary and the most recent Laudato Si'. The former invites us to contemplate the "social question" as a global issue that "ties all men together, in every part of the world"; the latter suggests that we "must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor". I will illustrate the practical implications of this double movement analysing the main lines of work of the Conflict-Free Technology Campaign run by ALBOAN, a Jesuit NGO, since 2014.
- Subjects
CATHOLIC Christian sociology; CHURCH; NINETEENTH century; POPULORUM progressio (Papal encyclical); SOCIAL justice
- Publication
Revista de Fomento Social, 2018, Vol 73, Issue 290, p305
- ISSN
0015-6043
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.32418/rfs.2018.290.1502