CHRISTIAN MORALITY: SOCIAL

ISSUES
ON SOCIETY
 I. Corruption
• Generally speaking as “the abuse of entrusted
power for private gain.”
• classified as grand, petty and political, depending
on the amounts of money lost and the sector
where it occurs.
• Grand corruption consists of acts committed at a
high level of government that distort policies or
the central functioning of the state, enabling
leaders to benefit at the expense of the public
good.
 I. Corruption
• Petty corruption refers to everyday abuse of
entrusted power by low- and mid-level public
officials in their interactions with ordinary
citizens, who often are trying to access basic
goods or services in places like hospitals,
schools, police departments and other
agencies.
 I. Corruption
• Political corruption is a manipulation of
policies, institutions and rules of procedure in
the allocation of resources and financing by
political decision makers, who abuse their
position to sustain their power, status and
wealth.
 II. Unjust Labor Practices
• Termination of a contract of employment
without due process or in a manner that
violates the terms of the contract is called
unjust dismissal. In such cases, the courts
usually take the employee's contractual rights
into consideration in awarding damages.
• Some of the exploitations are
contractualization of workers, prostitution,
child labor, and others
 III. CONSUMERISM
(materialism/commodification)
• Commodification is a process of not
distinguishing anymore either consciously or
unconsciously between human and non
human entities resulting from a capitalist
perspective solely for the sake of profiteering.
• The human person reduced to a tool that has
an exchange value.
 III. CONSUMERISM
(materialism/commodification)
• even the consciousness among workers is
already working within the spheres of
commodification because they no longer
perceive work as an extension of their being
but merely as a tool for survival.
 IV. Responsible Citizenship
• Being a responsible citizen covers many areas
– some of them legal obligations, some social
and some moral. Because not all of them are
legal obligations, being a responsible citizen is
not as easy as staying within the law.
• No one can be a responsible citizen without
staying within the law.
 IV. Responsible Citizenship
• Laws exist to protect citizens, the communities
they live in and their property. So to be a
responsible citizen, we must respect these
laws and abide by them.
• To be a responsible citizen, we should help our
communities and those who live in them.
 V. Religious Diversity
• We are in a new historical situation" one that is no
longer dominated as in the last century, by religious
indifference and secularization but by the plurality of
religious faiths.”
• This is also the result of a real doctrinal revolution
ushered in by Vatican II in its pronouncement of a
positive judgment on non Christian religions. The seeds
of truth and holiness in other religious traditions are
now recognized. (Vatican II, Nostra Aetate). Vatican II's
well known statement opened the door to
relationships with other faiths.
 V. Religious Diversity
• What the religions are offering and saying is not
the same thing, in different forms, but unique
and irreplaceable ways of salvation.
• Crossing boundaries leads us into the diversity of
truth conditions of other cultural and religious
traditions- Truth lies also elsewhere, outside the
walls of Christianity and the Church
• There is a great need to address the challenge to
enlarge the space for interreligious exchange,
intercultural communication and interfaith
witness.
 V. Religious Diversity
• Differences are not only to be tolerated. They
must also be celebrated. Diversity is to be
valued to transform the world into a better
place to live in. Hence, openness to the
religious-other would uncover potentialities
for approaching the plural mystery of God and
the riches of Gods infinite wisdom.