Principles of Catholic Social Thought (CST)

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1. Principles of Catholic Social Thought (CST)
The principles of Catholic social thoughts basically states that all people were created as social
beings and they are mutually interconnected and dependent with each other. It has been indicated
that CST includes the entire decorum of human since we all created in resemblance to God
(Beyer, 2014 p.78). The principles clearly show that God had planned beautifully the creation of
each individual so as to ensure all human beings they establish love, justice, and peace in the
whole world. Therefore, the CST concludes by showing that God is the part and parcel of every
human being on the earth. Moreover, the CST principles indicate the entire activities we as
human beings we are involved in so as to facilitate the whole world with the common goal of
love, peace, and justice. CST is classified into more than five principles whereby all the
principles ought to facilitate common people with the understanding of the Catholic concepts
(Costa & Ramus, 2012 p.76). Some of the principles included in CST are;
Human Flourishing, the Common Good and Community
The principle states that people are still social and sanctified in-spite the emergence of modern
culture with the intense egoism in the world (Constable, 2012 p.65). It has been identified that
most of our social culture structures and some of the potentials are entirely impacted by the
economic and social models. This, therefore, shows that the self-respect for each individual in
the society must be sanctioned through sharing of common goods thus enhancing the religious
and sequential goods which are identified as the rights of people in the community.
The stewardship of creation

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The principle states that human beings are responsible for the whole world and they ought to take
care of all what is in the entire world. All believers in stewardship they always believe that there
is one God who created the whole universe and all that is in the earth and they are supposed to
care all creation and look after it. The creations include animals and the entire environment. The
principles go on and explains the strong link between the environmentalism and stewardship.
The two terms that are environmentalism and stewardship typically are described as reducing the
human impact on natural resources. Some authors have come up with different views on the
principle of stewardship whereby they argue that humans have special capabilities on the earth
because they have introduced new technology which has saved the life for some of the resources
otherwise there could be elimination (Donaldson & Belanger, 2012 p.456). The modern
technology on saving life represent Noah’s Ark in the bible.
The solidarity
The principle shows that we as human beings we are all under one family despite the national,
ethnic, economic and ideological differences. All Catholic believers are on the frontline telling
the world that we all brothers and sisters keepers. According to Eick and Ryan (2014) the
solidarity principle stresses on loving our neighbors as we love ourselves. Basically, the core
virtue of solidarity in our community and also in the entire world is to ensure that we all instill
the spirit of justice and peace in all our endeavors. The entire gospel always calls all human
beings to be peacemakers. Loving our sisters and brothers as we love ourselves demands for
peace, love, and justice in the entire world. This shows that God doesn't want human beings to be
surrounded by the spirits of conflict and violence.
The life and dignity of the human person