Social Justice and the Catholic Social Teaching Tradition

Catalog description

This course is designed to help students engage the realities of social injustice while introducing them to the variety of ways in which the Christian tradition responds to injustice. Students will study selections from scripture, Catholic Social Teaching, Jesuit spirituality, and the lives of Christian saints and martyrs. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with the tradition of Catholic Social Teaching (CST) with a view toward developing skills for critical reading and appropriation of these documents.