SOCIAL JUSTICE

What Does Your Pathway Look Like?

In this unit students will investigate justice issues facing our world today, their causes, the associated problems and their impact on humankind. Students will explore Church teachings relevant to these issues and practical and Christian responses. The concept of service will be examined in terms of individual and collective responsibility to think globally and act locally. It is the path of Christian Conversion

The Path of Conversion

On going conversion is the way of the life for Christian faith. Continuously answering the God's call found in the person and the message of Jesus means to bring about a world community of harmony, peace and justice.

The process of making sense of the life’s big questions and the formation and testing of beliefs does not happen in a vacuum. It happens in a world mediated by meaning. Forming beliefs is an action of human consciousness in a cosmic process that is not fully predictable but never-the-less intelligible.

It is a world in which experiencing, understanding and judging is a creative process of meaning-making. Meanings evolve and human prospects advance.

Bernard Lonergan proposes that there is a fourfold intentionality involved when human beings attempt to come to the truth of their experience. He calls this the transcendental method of human consciousness. It is the way of conversion. In truth-seeking, Lonergan claims, there are four imperatives are at work: attentiveness, intelligence; reasonableness and responsibility.

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The Assessment Task

Students investigate a current world social justice issue of their choosing and

Present information, data and statistics about the issue (300 words +)
Investigate and show what the Catholic Church states about this issue (Quotations from Official Church Teachings)
Suggest and propose some solutions on what might be done to turn this problem around.