New Short Post Series: Catholic Social Teaching in 140 Characters or Less

Last updated on: January 9, 2016 at 6:00 am by Keith Michael Estrada

New Short Post Series: Catholic Social Teaching in 140 Characters or Less 2016-01-08T15:32:54-07:00 Keith Michael Estrada

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Catholic Social Teaching (CST) in 140 Characters or Less is an attempt to provide short bits from within our Catholic moral and social tradition to an audience subject to the tendencies of consumerism and immediate gratification. When possible, and please remind me if I forget, I will include a fuller portion of the quote provided for additional context, and may add a line or two of comment.

Certainly, we can learn much from short statements, but we must see things from within the whole of our faith tradition. This reminds me of what Henri de Lubac wrote in The Discovery of God, concerning Saint Augustine’s dilige et quod vis fac, that this exhortation is proper and may be embraced without error “if you love enough to act, in every circumstance, according to the dictates of love.” De Lubac continues, “One might also say ‘love and believe what you will’ – if you know how to extract all the light from love, whose source is not in you.” Therefore, start with and share small pieces if you prefer, but orient yourself towards learning the whole.

Read what different teachers of the faith have had to say on the Gospel’s demand for justice. See what/who inspired the Catholic Worker Movement, read the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, read whole documents and the many writers who contributed to this treasure.

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Get started by seeing our first CST in 140 Characters or Less posts where we quote Blessed Oscar Romero and Venerable Fulton J. Sheen on capitalism, and the Bishops of Peru on socialism.

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Keith Michael Estrada

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