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Conditions for Partnership : Contribution from Catholic Social Teaching

Understand the essence of dialogue in Catholic Social Teaching and its role in sustainable development. Explore insights on unity, inclusivity, human flourishing, and human potential. Delve into the complexities of a digital world and the commitment to meaningful dialogue. Date: 8th March 2019 in Rome.

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Conditions for Partnership : Contribution from Catholic Social Teaching

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  1. Conditions for Partnership: Contribution from Catholic Social Teaching Paul Tighe Religions and the Sustainable Development Goals Rome, 8th March 2019

  2. Council for Culture

  3. Introduction • Pontifical Council for Culture (Dialogue with non-believers), encounter • Cardinal Ravasi – philologist (dialogoi) • Encounter and deepen (deep conversations) • Condition for partnership • Contribution from Catholic Social Teaching – dialogical by nature and methodology • Specific insights – driver of engagement

  4. Church and World

  5. Church and World • Church cares for world – offers (God’s love for all, human worth, solidarity and communion) and receives (bi-directional learning) • Pilgrim Church – journeys with, shares concerns, goes beyond itself • Unity of human family – sons and daughters • Common Home – build together, inequality (material, democratic, destiny - meritocracy)

  6. Dialogical

  7. CST - Dialogical • Evolving – work in progress, not static • Complexity (inter-linked) – inter-disciplinary • Cultures and traditions – wisdom/values • Inclusivity – need for range of voices (logoi) • Action (chapter 5, Laudato Si) - dialogues

  8. Human flourishing

  9. Human flourishing • Searching for truth together – rooted in human nature (image and likeness) • Objectivity – what enriches? what destroys? • Natural moral law – method, open but needs to be inclusive and adequate • Limitations – essentialist, western, male (8th March, silence not consensus), generational • Human rights discourse – dignity, worth (intrinsic, innate, inalienable)

  10. Human Potential

  11. Understanding Human Potential • Faith and Reason • Science – celebration • Technocratic paradigm (reductionist – epistemology, dualism, commercial) • Cultural ecology • Arts – aesthetic education and empathy (visual and narrative arts) • Service – learning habits, finding self

  12. Digital World

  13. Dialogue in a digital world • Beyond optimism – human achievement, network of people • Polarization – media, public, be present • Education – listening, reflection, discernment, intentionality and attentiveness (slow) • Humanities – Hochschild (deep truths), Turkle (reclaiming conversation), Sunstein (democracy divided) • Visual – new forms of literacy

  14. Dialogue as a commitment

  15. Dialogue as a commitment • Other – proximity (love and hope) or distance (fear and hate) • Diversity – richness, learn, incremental • Faith communities – empowering leadership, constituency for positivity • Conversion – motivation, stories, anti-myths • Contemplation – joyful mystery, gratitude • Welby and Sacks

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