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Catholic Social Teaching And The Aids Epidemic

dc.contributor.authorKelly, Michael J
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-12T12:38:26Z
dc.date.available2020-10-12T12:38:26Z
dc.date.issued2011-01
dc.identifier.citationKelly, M. (2011). Catholic Social Teaching and the Aids Epidemic. Lusaka, Zambia: Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR)en
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.jctr.org.zm/handle/20.500.14274/115
dc.descriptionWorking from a different perspective than that of the Church, African philosophy reiterates the same idea in its principle that a person is a person through other persons - umuntu ng'umuntu ng'abantu. Something similar is captured in Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s statement that the solitary isolated human being is really a contradiction in termsen
dc.description.abstractThe Church’s social teaching refers to a body of teaching on social, economic, political and cultural matters developed over a long period by the Catholic Church, but proposed more explicitly and systematically in the years since 1891. The fundamental assumption of this teaching is that each individual is a social being who at every stage of life depends on others for existence and for the fulfilment of spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical and social needs. Almost seventy years ago, Pope Pius XII expressed this in picturesque language: “individuals do not feel themselves isolated units, like grains of sand, but (are) united by the very force of their nature and by their internal destiny, into an organic, harmonious mutual relationship”. The Second Vatican Council reaffirmed this position very clearly in its statement that the human person is not a solitary being, but a social being who can live and develop his or her full potential only by relating to others.en
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dc.publisherJesuit Centre for Theological Reflectionen
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dc.subjectCatholic Social Teachingen
dc.subjectAIDS Epidemicen
dc.titleCatholic Social Teaching And The Aids Epidemicen
dc.typeBooken


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