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1. Rise of parochial schools and education of childrenand youth.2. Efforts in higher education; significant percentageof the world’s Catholic colleges and universities arefound in the United States.3. High percentage of university-educated followershelped Catholics become members of middle andupper-middle class.4. Contribution of Catholic schools in modernurban settings.F. Late twentieth to start of twenty-first century.1. Areas for concern.a. Birth control, legalization of abortion.b. Priest sex abuse crisis; confidence in Churchblurred.c. Church attendance and vocations topriesthood and religious life decline.d. Rapid secularization of society and breakdownof the family.e. Religious illiteracy.2. Reasons for hope.a. Impact of the papacy of Pope John Paul II—leadership, evangelization.b. Pro-life movement—adult stem cell researchand benefits.c. Regrowth of seminaries and new religiouscommunities.d. Influence of the Catechism of the CatholicChurch.e. Multiple forms of lay leadership—lesspolarization.f. Rise of youth and young adult activities in theChurch: World Youth Days.g. American saints: Elizabeth Seton, FrancesCabrini, John Neumann, Katharine Drexel,Rose Philippine Duchesne, TheodoraGuerin; Blessed Junipero Serra, Blessed KateriTekakwitha.III. Challengesthe truth and power of the Church’s sacramentsand teaching.2. Though the members of the Church are prone tosin, the Church herself is sinless and holy.3. Despite the sins of her members, including theordained, the Church is entrusted by God withthe truth of the Gospel and the graced meansof salvation.4. Many members of the Church are also holy andpossess a heroic sanctity witnessed to by thecountless sacrifices many have made, often to thepoint of martyrdom.5. Pope John Paul II, on various occasions, apologizedfor the sins of the members of the Church in herhistory, including for harm caused by the excessesof the Inquisition and atrocities committed duringthe Crusades.6. The historical context in which these eventshappened: the people of those days dealt differentlywith threats and problems than we might do sonow. They used means that were commonly usedin their society then. We cannot judge them asharshly as some people judge them today.B. If the Catholic Church truly has the fullness of truth,why have other churches broken away from her?1. Generally, other churches broke away from theCatholic Church because of some human elementsuch as a disagreement with how beliefs areexpressed or explained, or a desire to change formsof worship, or political or personal reasons. Whilethe Church has the fullness of truth, notall her members appropriate and live that fullnessof truth.2. Other breaks from the Catholic Church werethe result of impatience on the part of those whosaw a need for reform or a problem they wishedto address.3. The Catholic Church is committed to seek unity infaith, and she works toward that, but such work forunity cannot compromise the truth of the faith.A. How can the Church claim to be holy and a protectorof truth when there are things in her history like theCrusades, the Inquisition, the persecution of Jews, andthe Galileo case?1. The Church is a source and means of holiness forpeople because God has made it so. The failuresof the Church’s members during her history arelamentable. The virtuous lives of the saints validateDoctrinal Elements of a Curriculum Framework for theDevelopment of Catechetical Materials for Young People of High School Age39
Option C: Living as a Disciple of Jesus Christ in SocietyThe purpose of this course is to introduce students to the Church’s social teaching. In this course, students are to learnhow Christ’s concern for others, especially the poor and needy, is present today in the Church’s social teaching and mission.I. God’s Plan for His PeopleVatican II: The Church is a sign and instrument of communionwith God and the unity of the whole human race(LG, no. 1).A. Salvation and truth (CCC, no. 851).1. Redemption through the Paschal Mystery.2. Eternal life with the Triune God in heaven.B. Happiness in this life (CCC, no. 1718).1. Happiness is a shared communion with God.a. Trinitarian communio is the pattern for sociallife (CCC, nos. 267, 738, 1693).b. Witness Christ in words and actions.2. The unity of the whole human race (CCC, nos.842, 1877).a. The social nature of the human person (CCC,nos. 1878-1889, 1929).b. The need for others.3. The household of faith—Church as the following:a. Mystical Body of Christ (CCC, nos. 774-779,787-796, 805-807, 872, 1123, 1396, 1548,2003).b. Family of God (CCC, no. 2790).c. Community of sanctified believers (CCC,no. 824).d. Teacher: forms the social conscience of society.e. Listener: ecumenism.II. Social Teaching of the ChurchA. Church always has stood for charity and justice (CCC,no. 953).1. Social teachings in Scripture.a. Amos and Isaiah.b. The Sermon on the Mount; Last Judgment(CCC, nos. 2153, 2262, 2336, 2605, 2830).c. Communal sharing, deacons, collectionsfor churches.2. Church’s history of social concern.3. Corporal and spiritual works of mercy(CCC, no. 2447).B. Different types of justice (CCC, nos. 2411-2412, 1807).1. Distributive justice (CCC, nos. 2236-2411).2. Legal justice.3. Commutative justice.4. Social justice (CCC, nos. 1928-1942).C. Social teaching in the modern era.1. Pope Leo XIII: encyclical Rerum Novarum in 1891.2. Social doctrine encyclicals of Popes Pius XI, JohnXXIII, Paul VI, and John Paul II.3. Vatican II: Gaudium et Spes.4. Catechism of the Catholic Church.5. Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church,Vatican, 2004.D. Principles of Catholic social teaching from theUniversal Magisterium.1. The necessity of the moral law: the moral lawprovides the foundation for all social teaching byaccounting for man’s duties and consequent rights(CCC, nos. 1959, 2070, 2242).2. God is the source of all civil authority: man doesnot confer authority upon himself, but authorityflows from God to all just governments and laws(CCC, no. 1899).3. The perfection of the person by the common good:man is perfected not only by private goods such asfood and shelter but by “common goods” such aspeace and truth that come about through his lifewith others in community (CCC, nos. 1905-1912,1925-1927).a. Respect for and promotion of the fundamentalrights of the person.b. Prosperity, or the development of the spiritualand temporal goods of society.c. The peace and security of the group andits members.E. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops(USCCB).1. After World War I, the bishops of the UnitedStates began a program of social reconstructionwhich included teachings on minimum wage, socialsecurity, and worker participation in management.2. Sampling of more recent pastoral letters.a. Brothers and Sisters to Us (1979).b. The Challenge of Peace: God’s Promise and40Doctrinal Elements of a Curriculum Framework for theDevelopment of Catechetical Materials for Young People of High School Age
Page 4 and 5: ContentsAbbreviations. . . . . . .
Page 6 and 7: IntroductionI have told you this so
Page 8 and 9: all the religious truths that God i
Page 10 and 11: B. Isn’t the Bible just another p
Page 12 and 13: . The Divine Persons are distinct f
Page 14 and 15: V. ChallengesA. How can we know God
Page 16 and 17: III. The Mission of Jesus Christ(Th
Page 18 and 19: 3. Where Jesus has gone, we hope to
Page 20 and 21: IV. Jesus Christ’s Mission Contin
Page 22 and 23: 7. The members of the Church are al
Page 24 and 25: 2. The Church teaches what God has
Page 30 and 31: c. Able to give free consent (CCC,
Page 32 and 33: VI. Life in Jesus ChristThe purpose
Page 34 and 35: d) Charity to others in judgment an
Page 36 and 37: ElectivesOption A: Sacred Scripture
Page 38 and 39: VII. Overview of the New TestamentA
Page 40 and 41: Option B: History of the Catholic C
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Page 46 and 47: Our Response (1983); Sowing Weapons
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Page 52 and 53: . Special focus of deacon is minist
Page 54 and 55: Option E: Ecumenical and Interrelig
Page 56 and 57: . Common ties between the Catholic
Page 58 and 59: a. God is one and that God is Triun

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