A rule of thumb, the responsibility: The Christian social doctrine explained in 20 minutes

Vienna (OTS) – What is the Christian to say the social doctrine of …? Personhood, common good, solidarity, subsidiarity, sustainability and the Option for the poor, are the six principles of the social doctrine, and they are explained in each 3-minute video from the Director of the Catholic social Academy of Austria (ksoe), Magdalena holztrattner. The illustrations are from Anna Egger. Magdalena Schauer from the media office for production and cutting. [Playlist on Youtube]
(https://web.ordensgemeinschaften.at/crm/track/click/5146/7992).

„The Christian is not social teaching cooking recipe, but as a compass. A compass gives direction, but it describes the steps which lead us to the goal. He helps us to follow if we don’t know more, but it requires, nevertheless, to plan our own way.“ The Magdalena Holztrattner, the Academy of Austria leads the Catholic social as a „Think Tank“ of the Church for social and socio-political issues and social change says.

Social ethical Thinking and Action is for the ksoe-conductive. Leadership and participation, social justice and alternative economies are the issues with which the Catholic social Academy of Austria has. You want to support with their Offerings of people and organizations that are shaping the social change. In a variety of collaborations – in this case with the religious communities of Austria – the ksoe to a good life for all. Holztrattner: „The social doctrine of the Church is pretending to be not a cooking recipe, the point-by-point and without any deviations, such as the good life for all can succeed. They can also be described as the ethics of the company, because it reflects about what kind of social structures needs a society so that all people can be good in your life.“

A rule of thumb, the responsibility

President Sr. Beatrix Mayrhofer of the religious communities, stresses: „In the Intro movie, the helpful view is that the Christian social doctrine, with its six principles something like the rule of thumb is the responsibility. Especially we religious people want to be of this responsibility in and for the world, by placing us in what we Do, with our plants and facilities to these six principles. Today, some of the foundations of the welfare state are in question or the General validity of human rights. In all, a good life for all, without exclusion and violence. These movies may help, more awake to our common world.“ And Mayrhofer: „structures can, however, also be unjust. The social ethics reflected, therefore, on the given social practice, the question of whether what is should be.“

Social structures, rules and regulations that affect the lives of many people over a long period of time (e.g. human rights, voting rights for men and women, or the provision of drinking water as a common good).

In the course of the last 130 years of the Church’s social preaching have emerged these six principles, which serve as reliable points of reference of social-ethical reflection.

Here it goes directly to the Videos

The Videos are on this Playlist [Youtube]
(https://www.ots.at/redirect/ordensgemeinschaften20).

An overall composition with a textual description of the six principles is to [this web site post]
(https://www.ots.at/redirect/ordensgemeinschaften19).

religious communities in Austria
Mag. Ferdinand Kaineder
media speaker
+43/699/1503 2847
ferdinand.kaineder@ordensgemeinschaften.at
www.religious communities.at