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  1. A Proclamation of Hope.Erin Brigham - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):269-287.
    This paper explores the theological underpinnings of Pope Francis’s messages to world meetings of popular movements as a way to discern his theology of organizing. In these messages, one encounters Francis’s social teaching, which is rooted in the preferential option for the poor and marginalized. Beyond an epistemological privilege of the poor long embraced in liberation theology, Francis looks to the agency, creativity, and resourcefulness of the poor to locate God’s action in history. He models a theological methodology attentive to (...)
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  2. Democratic Practice and Reverence.Larry Gordon - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):229-247.
    This article sheds light on the synergy between Catholic social thought and community organizing. By deploying reverence, a notion from classical-Greek political philosophy, this article examines the dynamic relationship between democratic practice and public action, on the one hand, and the cultivation of the interior life, or spirituality, on the other. For moderns, the dominant culture views these realms as distinct and disconnected. In contrast, the article argues that they are mutually reinforcing, each better with the other, in greater service (...)
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    Principle in Practice.Nicholas Hayes-Mota - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):207-228.
    This article draws on Alasdair MacIntyre’s influential theory of practice and employs it as a framework to analyze community organizing, focusing on the organizing tradition of Saul Alinsky. As a practice in MacIntyre’s sense, it argues, community organizing constitutes a teleological form of social activity that is oriented toward distinctive kinds of “internal goods” and that functions to develop new capacities within its practitioners to recognize, desire, and attain those goods, relying on standards of excellence, characteristic institutions, and its own (...)
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  4. Introduction.Nicholas Hayes-Mota, Erin Brigham & Richard L. Wood - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):201-206.
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    Community Organizing and the “Call of the King”.Ken Homan & David Inczauskis - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):307-324.
    There is a pressing need for a theological approach to community organizing that addresses two key problems: burnout among organizers and an unwillingness of ecclesial institutions to commit to authentic structural change. What is needed is a new, practical theology that spiritually sustains organizers and convinces decision-makers of the centrality of community organizing for the life of the Church. The authors propose a reinterpretation of St. Ignatius of Loyola’s meditation on the call of the eternal king in the Spiritual Exercises, (...)
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    Protagonists of Transformation.Emily Jendzejec - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):378-397.
    Discerning Deacons is using community organizing strategies to listen to and empower the People of God, shift power, and work toward structural change within the Church. Its goal is encouraging the discernment of opening the permanent diaconate to women, with fidelity to the synodal process. Reflecting on the vision and strategies of Discerning Deacons offers unique insights into organizing within an ecclesial structure. Its work highlights convergences of synodality, Catholic social teaching, and community organizing, and is a model of what (...)
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    The Historical Reality of Jesus as Criterion for Present-Day Christian Discipleship.Robert Lassalle-Klein - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):288-306.
    This paper outlines elements of a biblically informed theology for faith-based activists. First, it examines the historical reality of Jesus as the defining sign of the Word made flesh (Jn 1:14) and an important bridge to seventy years of biblical studies on the historical Jesus and his Palestinian context. Second, it argues that Jesus’s baptism “of repentance for the forgiveness of sins” (Mk 1:4b) functions as a highly symbolic public action defining his message, mission, and identity as God’s loving response (...)
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    Living Synodality.Eli McCarthy - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):342-358.
    Many Catholics living in violent conflict zones or in situations of structural injustice, along with Pax Christi International, Maryknoll, Pope Francis, and others, have been cultivating a tectonic shift toward centering active nonviolence in Catholic social ethics and approaches to conflict. This essay will illuminate how Catholic community organizing and strategic campaigns can both contribute to this shift and be enhanced by such a shift. The first part will describe salient features of this shift in Catholic theology and social ethics. (...)
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  9. Women Engaging the Catholic Social Tradition: Solidarity toward the Common Good.Taylor J. Ott - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):425-427.
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    Catholic Social Teaching in Practice: Exploring Practical Wisdom and the Virtues Tradition.James P. O’Sullivan - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):419-421.
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    Counting the Cost: Financial Decision-Making, Discipleship, and Christian Living.Caroline Redick - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):423-425.
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    Integral Human Development.Marc V. Rugani - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):421-423.
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    Can Unions, Accountability, and Synodality Coexist? An Ecclesiological Analysis of the 2015 San Francisco Archdiocesan Teachers’ Union Dispute.Ish Ruiz - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):359-377.
    What place does organizing have in the Church’s synodal journey? In his address for the opening of the Synod on Synodality in 2021, Pope Francis described synodality as “unity, communion, the fraternity born of the realization that all of us are embraced by the one love of God.” Yet the process of collective bargaining is often fraught with division, contention, and adverse interactions based on competing interests. The author argues that, in addition to following Catholic social teaching, organizing serves a (...)
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    Who Is Our Neighbor? Other-Than-Human People and Climate-Change Organizing.Cecilia Titizano - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):325-341.
    Getting to know one’s neighbor is one of the basic tenets of traditional community organizing. The author expands conceptions of who one’s neighbors are. First, she introduces one-on-one campaigns, expanding this principle in the presence of other-than-human people and transforming community organizing into a cosmic effort to bring shalom to creation. Second, the author reads Laudato si’ through the eyes of Querida Amazonia, wherein Pope Francis invites all to drink from Indigenous millennial wisdom. With the help of Andean-Indigenous Christian ontology, (...)
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    Looking Up and Looking Out.Jonathan Tran & Matthew Philipp Whelan - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):248-268.
    This essay reads W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction and Óscar Romero’s third pastoral letter, The Church and Popular Political Organizations, as offering a liberation-driven and Gospel-minded account of coalitional solidarity. After tracing Du Bois’s analysis of the “public and psychological wage” of racial capitalism and its divide-and-conquer strategy, the authors turn to how democracy for Du Bois involves a double maneuver of looking up from concrete reality to look out for coalitional solidarity. The authors also find a similar (...)
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    Organizing and the Revitalization of American Catholicism.Richard L. Wood - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (2):398-418.
    American Catholicism today struggles to sustain its longtime character as a truly “public religion”—that is, a religious tradition with a vital presence within the public sphere in the US. Reinvigorating Catholicism in the US will require both internal renewal and new approaches to public life, both of which will require continuity with the deep tradition and significant reorientation of ecclesial dynamics. This paper argues that specific, faith-based community organizing practices can help renew the public voice of Catholicism. In adopting such (...)
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    The “Best-Kept Secret” of Catholic Social Teaching: More Than a Metaphor?James B. Ball - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (1):59-80.
    Catholic social teaching is the Church’s “best-kept secret,” as the saying goes, but is it becoming literally true? This paper tests the proposition that the US bishops are developing a pattern of obscuring or, in effect, hiding particular social teachings of the popes. The instances examined include the ideological error of single-issue advocacy; the meaning of the right to form labor unions; and the intrinsic value of nonhuman species and ecosystems. It would be true irony if the “best-kept secret” were (...)
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    All Oppression Shall Cease: A History of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Catholic Church.Roger Bergman - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (1):194-196.
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    How Social Structures Are More Than Collections of Individuals.Josh Y. Chen - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (1):81-106.
    The problem of race has typically been treated as a problem of individual or institutional prejudice. However, more attention needs to be paid to structural racism, which shows how racialized opportunity structures sustain racial injustice even when actors are not prejudiced. Because Catholic social thought treats social structures as mere aggregates of individual behavior, however, it is unable to explain how opportunity structures constrain human agency, how social positions condition the behaviors of people who occupy them, and how harms may (...)
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    A Christian and African Ethic of Women’s Political Participation: Living as Risen Beings.Meghan J. Clark - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (1):192-194.
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    Catholic Discordance: Neoconservatism vs. the Field Hospital Church of Pope Francis / Church as Field Hospital: Toward an Ecclesiology of Sanctuary.Brian P. Flanagan - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (1):189-191.
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    Left Behind: Catholic Social Teaching and Justice for People with Intellectual Disabilities.James B. Gould - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (1):153-187.
    This paper uses themes from Catholic social teaching to challenge Church and society to prioritize a group that is left behind by social injustice: people with intellectual disabilities. It provides background information on intellectual disability, summarizes moral principles of Catholic social doctrine, describes sociological facts about how people with intellectual disabilities are left behind by social factors, and prescribes actionable solutions for treating them as equal members of society. The goal is to identify how to shape a society at all (...)
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    Does Catholic Health Care Have a Responsibility to Those Harmed by Pollution?Sara K. Kolmes & Steven A. Kolmes - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (1):133-151.
    Pollution results from humankind’s failure to be good stewards of creation. Guided by Catholic environmental bioethics, Catholic health care organizations have reduced their contribution to this pollution, but they also encounter its human cost. Catholic hospitals treat countless patients sickened by pollution, which most strongly impacts the poor and disenfranchised—those whom the Church expresses a preferential responsibility to care for, in part via the charity care that Catholic health care provides. The poor encounter another cost of pollution: the financial cost (...)
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    Local and Global: An Analogical Approach to God, Neighbor, and Indigenous Reconciliation in Pope Francis.Monica Marcelli-Chu - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (1):5-22.
    This paper proposes a way of navigating the tension between the local and global in Fratelli tutti. The author argues that the encyclical exemplifies and develops an analogical approach for authentic encounter. The analogical approach to God and its use of language emphasize a tensive space between the known and unknown, which the author transposes to human encounter. The encyclical grounds and develops this transposed analogical approach through emphasis on cultural diversity, with a bifocal affirmation of difference and desire for (...)
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    Enacting Catholic Social Tradition: The Deep Practice of Human Dignity.Jens Mueller - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (1):196-198.
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    Introduction.Tia Noelle Pratt - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (1):3-4.
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    Civil Rights and Prophetic Indictment: A Discursive History of Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe’s On the Interracial Apostolate.Dennis J. Wieboldt - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (1):107-131.
    In 1967, the superior general of the Society of Jesus, Pedro Arrupe, sent a memorandum on the American “racial crisis” to the Jesuit priests, brothers, and social institutions of the United States. Through appeals to the American legal and Catholic moral traditions, On the Interracial Apostolate articulated why Jesuits should strive to achieve racial equality, initiating a historic period of expansion in Jesuit civil rights programs. Given scholars’ limited engagement with On the Interracial Apostolate’s distinctive rhetorical features, this article explains (...)
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    United States Synod Participation and Questions of Women in the Church.Phyllis Zagano & Fernando Garcia - 2024 - Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21 (1):23-57.
    The responses of 178 Latin dioceses in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to the Preparatory Document for the Synod on Synodality were synthesized in fourteen regional reports. From these reports, and a report of lay groups, the USCCB produced the US report, which was synthesized with 111 other national reports into the Working Document for the Continental Stage (DCS). The latter was provided to seven continental assemblies. North American participants discussed the DCS in virtual meetings, and a (...)
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