Justitia in Mundo

Group 8Sulit, Faye

Gatchalian, FlorenceKobayashi, Tactto

Obregon, Nico

Historical Background

“Justitia”- in Latin means justice “In Mundo”- in Latin means in world Bishops around the world would meet in Rome

every 3 years to deliberate and discuss an issue of great concern to the church.

Historical Background

The bishops created this document because of the following:

- influence of the modern industrial and technological order that favors the concentration of wealth, power, and decision- making in the hands of a small public or private controlling group.

- forces of division and hatred are increasing in strength.

Historical Background

Urbanization- refers to a process in which the increasing proportion of a population lives in cities and the suburbs of cities that caused:

- Lack of housing

- Lack of infrastructure services

- Lack of property rights

Historical Background

Economic injustice and lack of social participation.

Oppression

Introduction

Came out of the Synod of Bishops in 1971 This is the shortest encyclical or document in

tradition, but in spite of its conciseness, it is regarded as a strong influence on social involvement among Catholics.

Obviously, it focused on the need for justice, the action the Church can take and the hope of salvation.

Introduction

Cites the cry of the oppressed and the challenge that such a cry has had on the Church

Calls attention to the roots of injustice that burdens human relations.

The Bishops stated that action in the quest of justice, and participation in the changing of the world are the elements in the Church's mission of sharing the Word of God.

Problems

Human rights and civil rights are obstructed by economic injustice such as:

-Hunger

- Poverty

- Unemployment Division between people, races and classes,

possess instruments of destruction.

Problems

Forms of oppression that leads to becoming a silent, voiceless victim of injustice and restrit individual rights.

Themes (Focus)

Liberation implies demand for transformation: condition of being marginal in society.

Education should promote a human way of life in justice, love, and simplicity.

- liturgy can greatly serve education for justice. The document stateda few a few points of

interest:

- governments should ratify the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights

Themes (Focus)

- the United Nations should be supported in all its efforts in achieving peace.

- new institutional arrangements for granting decision-making power and equal participation to developing nations that are concerned with development.

Solution/s

The people must:

- have a determined will for development.

- must take their future into their own hands through God to be able to progress.

Modernization should be accepted in every way that serves people's needs and preserves their cultural heritages.

Solution/s

The bishops calls on everyone especially the poor, the oppressed, and the afflicted, to cooperate with God to bring liberation from every sin and build a just world.

Conclusion / Advocacy

Christians should act to raise their family's life and testify to the power of the Spirit through their action.

God and His Word should always be present in the center of human lives and situations.

Justice attains its inner fullness only in love so we should love one another.

Conclusion / Advocacy

"Action on behalf of justice and participation in the transformation of the world fully appear to us as a constitutive dimension of the preaching of the Gospel, or, in other words, of the Church's mission for the redemption of the human race and its liberation from every oppressive situation."