Values & Catholic Social Teaching

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Values & Catholic Social Teaching

Our Values & Principles Catholic Charities Values

Catholic Social Teaching

R: Respect

1.) Life & Dignity of the Human Person

I: Integrity

2.) Call to Family, Community, and Participation

C: Compassion 3.) Rights & Responsibilities H: Hospitality 4.) Option for the Poor & Vulnerable E: Excellence S: Stewardship

5.) The Dignity of Work & Rights of Workers 6.) Solidarity

7.) Care for God’s Creation

The Roots of Respect

GENESIS 5:1-2 “This is the record of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, He made them in the likeness of God; He created them male and female. When they were created, He blessed them and named them humankind.”

Life & Dignity of the Human Person

RESPECT

The Dignity & Rights of Workers

Call to Family, Community, and Participation

The Roots of Integrity TITUS 2: 6-8 Urge the younger men, similarly, to control themselves, showing yourself as a model of good deeds in every respect, with integrity in your teaching, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be criticized, so that the opponent will be put to shame without anything bad to say about us.

Rights & Responsibilities

PROVERBS 10:9 Whoever walks honestly walks securely, but one whose ways are crooked will fare badly. INTEGRITY

The Roots of Compassion MATTHEW 9: 35-37 Jesus went around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and illness. At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few.” Philippians 2: 1-3

PHILLIPIANS 2: 1-3 If there is any encouragement in Christ, any solace in love, any participation in the Spirit, any compassion and mercy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, with the same love, united in heart, thinking one thing. Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves.

Option for the Poor & Vulnerable

COMPASSION

The Roots of Hospitality ROMANS 12:12-13 Rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the holy ones, exercise hospitality.

1 PETER 4: 8-10 Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaining. As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s varied grace.

Solidarity

HOSPITALITY

The Roots of Excellence Rights & Responsibilities

COLOSSIANS 3:17 And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

EXCELLENCE

The Roots of Stewardship LUKE 16:10-12 The person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones; and the person who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest in great ones. If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth, who will trust you with true wealth? If you are not trustworthy with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours?

Stewardship of God’s Creation

1 CORINTHIANS 4:2 Now it is of course required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. STEWARDSHIP

The Fruit of Our Values