Catholic Social Teaching Assignment Report

Running head: CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING
CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING
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CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING: serving humanity
With the sudden increase of chronic disease, there is a growing awareness of
incorporating catholic social thoughts for serving all who seek the assistance of these frontline
health professionals, for transforming their life. Through innovative as well as caring social
services, professionals seek to provide appropriate service to all who ask for assistance (White,
Braaton & Williams, 2016).. In other words, catholic social thought is matters of human
dignity and common good in society. The idea of the catholic social thought addresses
oppression, subsidiarity, initiatives of the common good, concern for social justice, and issues
of wealth distribution across the world (Clark, 2016). These principles play an important role in
explaining the interrelationships between self and community as each one of them highlight the

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importance of building a peaceful society (Waters et al., 2016). While all principles are crucial
for serving the needy individuals around the globe, four principles such as life and dignity of the
human person, Preferential Option for the Poor, the Common Good and family, community and
participation are the most crucial principle that provides direction to the professionals for serving
the community.
Considering the first principle, as life and dignity of the human person, the Catholic
Church proclaims that human life is sacred and the dignity of the human being is the foundation
of a moral vision for society (Sison et al., 2016). According to this principle, the human being
has self-knowledge and self-possession and ability to emphasize the issues experienced by a
human being (Zobieri, 2017). As human values in the present era are a result of materialism and
declined human respect, this principle provides a sense of self by sharing personal and
professional values of treating each individual with dignity in the community and this principle
bring the importance of self(Waters et al., 2016). For example, while serving the patients coming
from different culture background, this principle enables nursing professionals to provide