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Understanding Catholic Social Teaching on Participation and Its Contemporary Implications

This exploration of Catholic Social Teaching focuses on the concept of participation and its implications in today's society. Participation reflects our complete dependence on the Creator and our shared responsibility in various societal movements, including protests against the death penalty and pro-choice advocacy. Real-life examples illustrate how these teachings manifest, such as recent protests following significant legal decisions. The moral imperatives voiced by notable figures like Mother Teresa and Ronald Reagan highlight the core values of human dignity and the sanctity of life that underpin these social teachings.

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Understanding Catholic Social Teaching on Participation and Its Contemporary Implications

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  1. Catholic Social Teaching(Participation) By: Christian Coleman

  2. Definition • In Christian thought it means the complete dependence of creatures on the creator in order of efficient exemplary, and fine causality. • Sharing or taking part in a common effort, glory, nature or movement.

  3. Real life examples/Current events Protestors gather to protest the death penalty as Robert Jackson III is put to death by lethal injection at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center Friday, July 29, 2011, in Smyrna, Del.

  4. Real life examples/Current events Marchers gather in San Francisco in 2009 on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the law that gave women the right to choose to have an abortion.

  5. Quotes • “It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” Mother Teresa • “We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life - the unborn - without diminishing the value of all human life.” Ronald Reagan • “Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.”Albert Camus, French philosopher

  6. Photos

  7. Bibliography • (pro-choice and anti-abortion protest,flickr.com) • (The Wilmington News-Journal, Andrew Renneisen, Protestors gather to protest the death penalty, yahoo.com) • (Catholic encyclopedia, participation) • (all the best quotes, chatna.com)

  8. I have neither given nor received any unauthorized aid on this assignment…

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