[sinkspur]

Here is another modernist buzz word to be aware of - "social justice." I cringe when I hear it.

Even when Leo XIII uses it in Rerum Novarum in the late 19th century?

The Church has pushed for "social justice" since the time of Christ.

[dangus]

Ping to post 7, sinkspur

[StAthanasiustheGreat]

No, but sadly, Social Justice today has become equated with Marxist Liberation Theology, not the dignity of the human person that it really stands for. Abortion is a Social Justice issue, though the average Social Justice person (the parish's Social Justice Committee), wouldn't consider it a social justice issue.

[pascendi]

"Even when Leo XIII uses it in Rerum Novarum in the late 19th century? The Church has pushed for "social justice" since the time of Christ."

Pope Leo XIII:

"It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and dwells on the introduction of a new order of Christian life, on new directions of the Church, on new aspirations of the modern soul, on a new social vocation of the clergy, on a new Christian civilization, and many other things of the same kind."

[Mershon]

Hey, sinky. We are talking about the current AmChurch use of the term. I doubt they have read Leo XIII or even JPII for that matter.

Is "social justice" the only objectionable word you found? Nothing else that was listed seemed objectionable to you? Hmm...

[littlepaddle]

Social justice in catholic terms always included the Social Kingship of Christ. There can be no true social justice when you remove Him from the equation. This is false social justice that you see in our government does just that, it removes God from the equation and focuses solely on the rights of man. This type of thinking is masonic.A quick read of Rerum Novarium shows that the Pope is referring to the type of social justice that would coincide with the Social Kingship of Christ.
Catholics should and have also wanted social justice but only in the framework of the Social Kingship of Christ.
This unfortunately has not been taught since vat2.

[Conservative til I die]

I'm sure that this argument has gone on for quite some time on this thread, and frankly, I'm not even going to read it, but Sinkspur, you have to admit that even if not intended, the phrase "social justice" has become a modernist codeword.

I actually heard it during the intentions at a recent Mass where the lecter implored us to pray for "Social justice and a more even distribution of wealth."