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Laudato Sí is an important and timely teaching document with great relevance for the peoples of A... more Laudato Sí is an important and timely teaching document with great relevance for the peoples of Asia. Pastoral agents in the local churches of Asia need to understand this teaching in order to play their part in making it known, and interpreting its implications for local faith communities. This paper provides hermeneutic keys to assist pastoral workers to understand the encyclical and its place within the corpus of Catholic Social Teaching. It examines the context in which the encyclical was issued, its purpose and audience, the teaching authority that it holds, its methodology and main concerns, and its contribution to the body of CST. These reflections are intended to better equip pastoral workers in Asia to engage more deeply with the meaning and implications of the encyclical for the thinking and action of local churches. Through such engagement, they may be able to make contextualized contributions to the ongoing development of the local and universal social teachings.
Millions of people are on the move. Often their rights claims are seen as conflicting with those ... more Millions of people are on the move. Often their rights claims are seen as conflicting with those of host communities and as threatening national sovereignty. This article presents a brief overview of the response of Papal Catholic Social Teaching (CST) on migration in the post Vatican II period, and that of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences. It suggests the following areas for potential development in CST on migration: criteria for the acceptance of migrants when the common good prevents the acceptance of all who have a moral claim on a community; engaging with the gendered experiences of women migrants
and the social construction of complementarity as subordination; and moving beyond a nuclear-family-centred perspective. In the interplay between local and universal CST, the Bishops of Asia have the opportunity to contribute more to the development of CST as a more truly international and less Eurocentric body of teaching.
Laudato Sí is an important and timely teaching document with great relevance for the peoples of A... more Laudato Sí is an important and timely teaching document with great relevance for the peoples of Asia. Pastoral agents in the local churches of Asia need to understand this teaching in order to play their part in making it known, and interpreting its implications for local faith communities. This paper provides hermeneutic keys to assist pastoral workers to understand the encyclical and its place within the corpus of Catholic Social Teaching. It examines the context in which the encyclical was issued, its purpose and audience, the teaching authority that it holds, its methodology and main concerns, and its contribution to the body of CST. These reflections are intended to better equip pastoral workers in Asia to engage more deeply with the meaning and implications of the encyclical for the thinking and action of local churches. Through such engagement, they may be able to make contextualized contributions to the ongoing development of the local and universal social teachings.
Millions of people are on the move. Often their rights claims are seen as conflicting with those ... more Millions of people are on the move. Often their rights claims are seen as conflicting with those of host communities and as threatening national sovereignty. This article presents a brief overview of the response of Papal Catholic Social Teaching (CST) on migration in the post Vatican II period, and that of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences. It suggests the following areas for potential development in CST on migration: criteria for the acceptance of migrants when the common good prevents the acceptance of all who have a moral claim on a community; engaging with the gendered experiences of women migrants
and the social construction of complementarity as subordination; and moving beyond a nuclear-family-centred perspective. In the interplay between local and universal CST, the Bishops of Asia have the opportunity to contribute more to the development of CST as a more truly international and less Eurocentric body of teaching.