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Promoting Civil Resistance as Part of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative

Promoting Civil Resistance as Part of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative – ICNC webinar

Thanks to Steve Chase at the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict for hosting an excellent 1-hour resource-rich webinar on “Promoting Civil Resistance as Part of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative.” Key presenters include Marie Dennis from Pax Christi International’s Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, Eli S. McCarthy from Georgetown University’s Peace and Justice studies program, and Sharon Erickson Nepstad, a sociologist of Catholic social movements at the University of New Mexico.

In this webinar, we hear from a scholar and two members of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative as they described CNI’s efforts to deepen the Catholic Church’s understanding of and commitment to “active nonviolence” with a particular focus on civil resistance as a key tool in promoting social justice. Marie Dennis introduces the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative and its engagement through two major conferences with the Vatican. Sharon Nepstad gives more context on the historical role of Catholics in civil resistance movements. Eli McCarthy shares what the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative is doing now to increase the understandings and skills of nonviolent resistance among Catholics.

For those interested in teaching about Pax Christi International’s Catholic Nonviolence Initiative in churches, schools, or community gatherings, this is a compact, 1-hour webinar to start the conversation.

Relevant Readings:

Appeal to Catholic Church to Re-Commit to the Centrality of Gospel Nonviolence

Advancing Just Peace through Strategic Nonviolent Action by Dr. Maria J. Stephan

2017 World Day of Peace message by Pope Francis

Peace Movements and Religion in the U.S. by Sharon Erickson Nepstad

Just Peace Ethic Handout

See all resources at: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/promoting-civil-resistance-as-part-of-the-catholic-nonviolence-initiative/

Author Rose Marie BergerPosted on September 29, 2019September 29, 2019Categories UncategorizedTags Catholic Church, Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, Catholic social teaching, civil resistance, Eli McCarthy, ICNC, Marie Dennis, Pax Christi International, Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Steve Chase, video, webinarLeave a comment on Promoting Civil Resistance as Part of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative

‘Making a Deposit of Faith’: On Catholics and Credit Unions

I’m very happy to say that U.S. Catholic magazine has published an article I wrote for them on Catholics and credit unions.

It was a great exercise in recalling my own upbringing around money and how much the financial industry has changed, even just in my lifetime.

U.S. Catholic chooses some articles – like mine – to post first online with a reader survey, then they run the survey results along with the article in the print magazine. So right now this article is only available online, but will be in the February 2013 print edition of the magazine.

I hope you’ll take the survey! Here’s an excerpt from my article Make A Deposit of Faith When Finding a Home for Your Money.

One of the first questions to ask when assessing one’s own financial social responsibility is: How quickly does my dollar leave my neighborhood? Or as one community organizer put it: How many of your neighbors’ hands does your money pass through before it leaves your immediate community? Generally speaking, the bigger the financial corporation, the quicker your dollar exits.

Credit unions, as we know them today, originated in Europe in the 1800s as financial self-help cooperatives among small business owners and farmers in particular locales, geared toward providing for and protecting their economic sovereignty. Many of them were started by Catholics and were based on principles of Catholic Social Teaching. For example, both St. Anthony Claret (1807-1870)–founder of the Claretians, who publish this magazine–and Franciszek Stefczyk (1861–1924) worked in rural areas to establish credit unions among poor farmers. Both wanted famers to own their farms and market their own crops, and they understood that one’s financial health was intimately connected with one’s family and local community. Stefczyk’s community organizations were intended to be “schools of character” for enhancing human dignity and stabilizing local communities.

As immigrant Catholics brought credit unions to America, they became organized around seven principles that reflect Catholic teaching: 1) voluntary membership, 2) democratic governance, 3) member control of capital, 4) autonomy and independence, 5) education of members and public in cooperative principles, 6) cooperation between cooperatives, and 7) concern for the local community. Most credit unions today are still built around these principles.

“If love is wise,” wrote Pope Benedict in his 2009 encyclical Charity in Truth, “it can find ways of working in accordance with provident and just expediency, as is illustrated in a significant way by much of the experience of credit unions.” … –Rose Marie Berger

Read the rest of Make A Deposit of Faith When Finding a Home for Your Money.

Author Rose Marie BergerPosted on October 19, 2012October 21, 2012Categories UncategorizedTags Anthony Claret, Catholic social teaching, Charity in Truth, cooperatives, credit unions, Franciszek Stefczyk, Pope Benedict, U.S. CatholicLeave a comment on ‘Making a Deposit of Faith’: On Catholics and Credit Unions

Catholic Bishops’ Kick the Hornets Nest

The Vatican and U.S. Catholic Bishops have kicked the hornet’s nest of American Catholicism with their constant harping on the specks in the eyes of Catholic women, Sisters, Girl Scouts, justice-minded theologians, or universal healthcare etc, while blatantly ignoring the tremendous, Sequoia-sized timber protruding from their own eyes, namely the sexual abuse scandal and their criminal conspiracy to cover it up.

As the bishops launch the old “bait-and-switch” trying to by focus attention on their “Fortnight of Religious Freedom” (which in my humble opinion is naught much more than the public burning right-wing money in an era of skyrocketing joblessness and poverty), a group of Catholic lay leaders in Washington, D.C., have begun to call out the Vatican and the U.S. bishops’ “overreach” on issues of religious liberty.

They write:

We are deeply concerned that, under cover of a campaign for religious liberty, the provision of universal health care–a priority of Catholic social teaching from the early years of the last century–is being turned into a wedge issue in a highly-charged political environment and that our parish, and indeed the wider church, is in danger of being rent asunder by partisan politics. We, as a group, may have differing views as to the wisdom of the details of the Health and Human Services mandate, against which our archdiocese has now announced a lawsuit in federal court, but we are united in our concern that the bishops’ alarmist call to defend religious freedom has had the effect of shutting down discussion.

It is a step too far. We, the faithful, are in danger of becoming pawns and collateral damage in a standoff between our church and our government.

Eileen Zogby, one of the group members and a parishioner at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Parish in Washington, D.C., wrote this reflection and distributed it through Catholics United:

I have been an active member of Blessed Sacrament Parish in Washington, D.C., for more than 31 years. My faith is my bedrock; my parish is my home.That is why I am worried and deeply saddened to see partisan politics increasingly creeping into our faith community. A few months ago, I attended a meeting at our church when a fellow parishioner publicly expressed outrage that there were cars in the church parking lot that had “Obama bumper stickers.” The intensity of his tone and the fact that I had such a decal made me so uncomfortable that I left the meeting.

In this highly charged election season, the political attacks will only intensify. The “Fortnight for Freedom” being organized by the Bishops because of their disagreements with the Obama administration should not be brought into our sacred space. They are asking pastors to preach about “religious liberty” and to distribute political statements inside our bulletins.

But there’s hope. A group of parishioners at my church recently spoke to our pastor about our concerns and he is listening.

We wrote our pastor a letter and asked him to reconsider our parish’s participation in the “Fortnight for Freedom”. We met with him and expressed our concern that this type of political activity was inappropriate and would cause divisiveness in our community. Our parish had always been a welcoming place where people of all different opinions joined together in worship, heard the Gospel message of Christ and found a source of spiritual strength. We are grateful that our pastor listened and feel that he has taken our concerns seriously.

As the mother of five, and the grandmother of nine, I worry whether these future generations will see the Church as a place that proclaims the expansive message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, a place where they will find the abundance of God that will inspire them to go out and serve others in God’s name. —Eileen Zogby

Read the full letter to the Blessed Sacrament’s pastor here. Here’s a snippet:

There is, however, another, very serious, threat to the well-being of millions of our fellow citizens. We are concerned that, under cover of a campaign for religious liberty, the bishops are jeopardizing the universal health insurance coverage that has long been a prime objective of Catholic social teaching.

We are also concerned that the “fortnight for freedom” and related efforts will be seen, in an election year, as acts of political partisanship and as such have the potential to divide our parish and the wider church.

Author Rose Marie BergerPosted on June 12, 2012Categories UncategorizedTags Blessed Sacrament, Catholic bishops, Catholic social teaching, Catholic United, D.C., Eileen Zogby, feminism, Fortnight of Religious Freedom, gospel, Health and Human Services, Jesus, laity, USCCB, Washington, womenLeave a comment on Catholic Bishops’ Kick the Hornets Nest

Connecting the Climate Dots in D.C.

More than 50 people gathered on May 4, 2012, at Dorothy Day Catholic Worker in Washington, D.C., to discuss climate change and the seven principles of Catholic Social Teaching. Sojourners’ Rose Marie Berger spoke to the group, which included 25 students from Bishop McNamara high school.

The students and others identified signs of climate change in D.C.: No snow this last winter, increased allergies, increased number of mosquitoes and other insects, more asthma, birds not migrating, and more severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. As part of 350.org’s global “Connect the Climate Dots” event on May 4-5, participants hold up “dots” for “no snow,” “drought,” and “severe weather.”

(Photos by Heidi Thompson and Alycia Ashburn)

Author Rose Marie BergerPosted on May 7, 2012May 7, 2012Categories UncategorizedTags 350.org, art laffin, Catholic social teaching, climate change, connect the dots, D.C., Dorothy Day, WashingtonLeave a comment on Connecting the Climate Dots in D.C.

Hypocritical: Faith leaders condemn Ryan’s use of religion to justify his budget

Thanks to the good folks over at PICO National Network for calling out House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan on his federal budget. He likes to say it’s rooted in Catholic Social Teaching — but it’s not. Here’s PICO’s take on the topic:

If it became law, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s federal budget would decimate food stamps, Head Start, higher education assistance, Medicaid, Medicare, job training and other programs that help vulnerable working families make it through tough times and live better lives. It would push more Americans into poverty, while dramatically cutting taxes for the richest people in the country.

“It’s the height of hypocrisy for Rep. Ryan to claim that his approach to the budget is shaped by Catholic teaching and values,” said Fr. John Baumann, S.J., founder of PICO National Network. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has been clear about where they stand on protecting the poor in the federal budget.

The Catholic Church not only sponsors a vast array of anti-poverty programs and initiatives, but has been at the forefront of lobbying Congress to reject the radical proposals to cut social programs for the vulnerable while reducing taxes on the wealthy. During last year’s budget debate, the Bishops, along with leading Evangelical and Mainline Protestant religious leaders said in their Circle of Protection statement1 that any effort to reduce the deficit must not increase poverty or inequality. The Bishops reiterated that clear standard of assessing budget proposals based on whether they promote the common good and protect “the least of these” (Matthew 25) in their March 6, 2012 letter to Congress:

“A central moral measure of any budget proposal is how it affects “the least of these” (Matthew 25). The needs of those who are hungry and homeless, without work or in poverty should come first.” ….

Read the rest here.

Author Rose Marie BergerPosted on April 11, 2012Categories UncategorizedTags budget, Catholic social teaching, economics, John Baumann, Paul Ryan, PICO, Roman CatholicLeave a comment on Hypocritical: Faith leaders condemn Ryan’s use of religion to justify his budget

Sen. Barbara Mikulski on ‘Being Educated by the Nuns’

This morning NPR Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen interviewed Barbara Mikulski, the longest serving female senator in U.S. history. Mikulski talked inspirationally about her Catholic faith.

HANSEN: What of your personality and political savvy can be traced back to your Baltimore roots?

MIKULSKI: …. I went to Catholic schools and was educated by the nuns. Their emphasis on leadership, service, and also the values of our faith contained in the Beatitudes, Matthew 5, the Sermon on the Mount. To hunger and thirst after justice.

HANSEN:  It is true that you almost became a nun, but the discipline might have been too much.

MIKULSKI: Well, you know … every one of my age who saw these wonderful women who taught us and dedicated their lives we all wanted to emulate them. But you know the nuns take these vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.The one for me: obedience. I think I would have had a hard time with that one. But so would Harry Reid or George Bush!

Author Rose Marie BergerPosted on January 30, 2011Categories UncategorizedTags Barbara Mikuslki, Catholic, Catholic sisters, Catholic social teaching, interview, Liane Hansen, Matthew 5, NPR, radio, Sermon on the Mount3 Comments on Sen. Barbara Mikulski on ‘Being Educated by the Nuns’

Why Do Americans Emphasize Charity Over Justice?

This morning I came across Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus: Catholic Social Teaching at Work Today that’s a great “cheat sheet” on Catholic Social Teaching and the biblical issues of charity and justice. It’s part of the basic catechism of the Catholic church and one of the greatest gifts we Catholics have to offer the rest of the world. It’s a great thing to hand out at church. Here’s an excerpt:

CHARITYAND JUSTICE

There are a number of ways that we can walk in the footsteps of Jesus today. We can help in a soup kitchen, visit someone in prison, or help resettle a refugee family. We can contact legislators, work for peace, or support a local community organization that empowers low-income people to address issues that impact them. These examples illustrate two distinct yet complementary ways to put Catholic social teaching into practice: charity and justice.These two types of responses have been called the two “feet” of Christian service. We need both feet—charity and justice—to walk the walk in the footsteps of Jesus.

Catholic social teaching calls us to both charity and justice. Charity meets the immediate needs of persons and families; but charity alone does not change social structures that attack human dignity, oppress people, and contribute to poverty. Pursuing social justice helps us change oppressive social structures; but we cannot ignore the urgent needs of persons while we work for social change.

Charity and justice are incomplete without each other; they are two sides of the same coin. Charity calls forth a generous response from individuals; justice requires concerted communal action to transform institutional policies, societal laws, or unjust social situations. With our emphasis on individualism, we Americans tend to emphasize charity over justice. The challenge for Catholics is to appreciate the demands of both charity and justice.

Read the whole thing here.

Catholic Social Teaching is often referred to as the “best kept secret” in the Catholic Church. It’s even a secret from Catholics and many priests! But it provides some of the most strenuous theological ethics available to all Christians for teaching values, ethics, and moral reasoning. While many denominations – including Catholics – teach church goers the “do’s and don’t’s” of Christian morality, too few teach the roots or values behind the “law.” And in the moral quagmire of today’s world – where the decision of one individual can have global consequences – it is more important than ever to teach moral reasoning, not just moral outcomes.

Author Rose Marie BergerPosted on May 12, 2010May 27, 2010Categories UncategorizedTags catechism, Catholic social teaching, Charity, justice, Roman Catholic, social change, social justice, walking in the footsteps of jesus1 Comment on Why Do Americans Emphasize Charity Over Justice?

César Baldelomar: Why I’m a Vatican II Catholic

cbaldelomar-2010-FinalCésar J. Baldelomar, a grad student at Harvard Divinity School, is a regular blogger over at God’s Politics.  He’s also the executive director of Pax Romana Center for International Study of Catholic Social Teaching.

I appreciated his recent post Vatican II 101: Social Justice is Part of Catholic Identity. It’s part review of James Carroll’s new book Practicing Catholic and part personal reflection on how Catholic Social Teaching brought César back into the church.

With the creeping “reform the reform” movement that is blossoming under Pope Benedict, it is very important for Vatican II Catholics to give witness to why it is vital to the church (see also Hermeneutic of Dysfunction for more on this). Here’s an excerpt from his post:

Not too long ago, I considered myself a former Catholic. I asked, “How could I, in clear conscience, choose to remain in a church that often seems to forget its call to social justice and that covers up the terrible abuses of children at the hands of priests and bishops?” The answer to my angst now seems somewhat clear: If I leave the church, I would be dishonoring the legacy of the council fathers, who, in a span of some four years, rocked the foundations of an ancient edifice. Moreover, I would be “selling-out” the prophetic figures who followed in the Vatican II spirit – figures like Oscar Romero, Gustavo Gutierrez, Dorothy Stang, Jon Sobrino, Leonardo Boff, and several other less known men and women.

Though born twenty-one years after Vatican II, I consider myself a Vatican II Catholic. When I struggle whether to remain a Catholic, I simply recall the council fathers’ heroic and prophetic stances in favor of religious liberty, peace, social justice, the vernacular liturgy, and recognition of Jews as older brothers in faith. The council fathers and those following in their spirit remind me that being Catholic means emulating Jesus by practicing love and compassion for all, but especially the marginalized and oppressed. I can only hope to not disappoint these heroic figures!

Read the whole post here.

Author Rose Marie BergerPosted on March 23, 2010March 22, 2010Categories My Kinda Christian, UncategorizedTags Catholic social teaching, Cesar J Baldelomar, Dorothy Stang, God's Politics, Gustavo Gutierrez, James Carroll, Jon Sobrino, Leonardo Boff, Oscar Romero, Pax Romana, Pope Benedict, Practicing Catholic, Vatican II1 Comment on César Baldelomar: Why I’m a Vatican II Catholic

Ted Kennedy’s Letter to the Pope

kennedy-priestDuring the 3 days of funeral proceedings for Sen. Kennedy, I was very pleased to see the public display of support and solidarity for Sen. Kennedy by the institutional Catholic Church.

Kennedy was an embodiment of Catholic social teaching in every aspect of his political life. He also was emblematic of the complexities of living out that social teaching with integrity in our modern world–especially on the issue of abortion.

But one of the fundamental characteristics of the Catholic faith is our ability to maintain a large embrace. Our strength to do this is provided by the unifiying nature of the Eucharist.

I was especially touched by the exchange of letters between Sen. Kennedy and Pope Benedict, read by Cardinal McCarrick at the burial at Arlington. Here’s the most complete transcript I could find.

Excerpts of the letter from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy that President Barack Obama delivered to Pope Benedict XVI earlier this year and an account of the pope’s response, as read by Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington:

”Most Holy Father I asked President Obama to personally hand deliver this letter to you. As a man of deep faith himself, he understands how important my Roman Catholic faith is to me, and I am so deeply grateful to him. I hope this letter finds you in good health. I pray that you have all of God’s blessings as you lead our church and inspire our world during these challenging times. I am writing with deep humility to ask that you pray for me as my own health declines.

”I was diagnosed with brain cancer more than a year ago and although I continue treatment, the disease is taking its toll on me. I am 77 years old and preparing for the next passage of life. I have been blessed to be part of a wonderful family and both of my parents, particularly my mother, kept our Catholic faith at the center of our lives. That gift of faith has sustained and nurtured and provides solace to me in the darkest hours. I know that I have been an imperfect human being, but with the help of my faith I have tried to right my path. I want you to know Your Holiness that in my nearly 50 years of elective office I have done my best to champion the rights of the poor and open doors of economic opportunity. I have worked to welcome the immigrant, to fight discrimination and expand access to health care and education. I have opposed the death penalty and fought to end war.

”Those are the issues that have motivated me and have been the focus of my work as a United States senator. I also want you to know that even though I am ill, I am committed to do everything I can to achieve access to health care for everyone in my country. This has been the political cause of my life. I believe in a conscience protection for Catholics in the health field and I will continue to advocate for it as my colleagues in the Senate and I work to develop an overall national health policy that guarantees health care for everyone. I have always tried to be a faithful Catholic, Your Holiness, and though I have fallen short through human failings, I have never failed to believe and respect the fundamental teachings of my faith. I continue to pray for God’s blessings on you and on our church and would be most thankful for your prayers for me.”
——
An account from the Vatican of the pope’s response, according to McCarrick:

”The Holy Father has the letter which you entrusted to President Barack Obama, who kindly presented it to him during their recent meeting. He was saddened to know of your illness, and asked me to assure you of his concern and his spiritual closeness. He is particularly grateful for your promise of prayers for him and for the needs of our universal church.
”His Holiness prays that in the days ahead you may be sustained in faith and hope, and granted the precious grace of joyful surrender to the will of God, our merciful Father. He invokes upon you the consolation and peace promised by the Risen Savior to all who share in His sufferings and trust in His promise of eternal life.

”Commending you and the members of your family to the loving intervention of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Holy Father cordially imparts his Apostolic Blessing as a pledge of wisdom, comfort and strength in the Lord.”

You can also watch the video here:

Author Rose Marie BergerPosted on August 31, 2009August 31, 2009Categories UncategorizedTags Arlington, burial, Catholic social teaching, church and state, eucharist, funeral, letter, McCarrick, Obama, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic, Ted Kennedy, videoLeave a comment on Ted Kennedy’s Letter to the Pope

Catholics and the Credit Crunch

creditcrunch1Edward Hadas is an editor at Breakingviews.com, a London-based financial commentary service and teaches philosophy and Catholic Social Teaching at Maryvale University in the UK. His recently released short little book The Credit Crunch gives an incisive analysis of the current economic crisis through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching in very accessible language. Below is an excerpt from Will Chambers’ review of The Credit Crunch:

The author first of all points out that our financial system has brought great benefits. Then he contrasts the liability of financial systems to repeated crashes against the reliability of air transport, where the techniques for recognising and managing risks in large and complex systems are well understood. He then asks why finance should be so accident prone. First he gives a quick definition of finance, and emphasises the need for trust. He then introduces two “lies”, which when linked to greed are the causes of the breakdowns.

The first lie, oddly called “noble”, is that resources claimed by two parties are regarded by each party as belonging to themselves alone. When I deposit money in a bank I still regard myself as owning it, although it has in most cases been loaned out to a borrower who regards it as for his own use (at least for the time being). Without this lie it would be very hard to borrow money for large projects. Greed causes this lie to give rise to trouble when the lender asks for too much interestor when the borrower exceeds his means to repay.

The other lie, the “ignoble” lie, is that one should strive for the highest possible returns. But beyond a certain level one man’s gains are another man’s losses, and so this form of greed leads to a wealth gap, and also to disappointment for most people, since there must be an upper limit on what one can expect without increasing genuine wealth creation.

Read the whole review here. Buy the book here.

Author Rose Marie BergerPosted on July 8, 2009July 8, 2009Categories UncategorizedTags banking, Breakingviews, Catholic social teaching, Chambers, credit crisis, economy, ethics, financial, greed, Hadas, Independent Catholic News, Maryvale, morality, review, study guideLeave a comment on Catholics and the Credit Crunch

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