Social teaching of Catholic Church must be in touch with reality – Dublin archbishop

The social teaching of the Catholic Church must be in touch with reality, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has said. “It is, however, not an ideology. Neither is it a political or economic platform. The Gospels do not provide readymade answers to the ongoing challenges of a complex world. To affirm otherwise would be fundamentalism,” he said.

One of the encouraging new factors emerging in today’s world was that of international public opinion, he said. “It is important to remember how public opinion was an influencing factor in the fight against slavery, against child labour and today against human trafficking. But public opinion needed “forerunners”, he said. These would be “men and women of intuition and innovation, of courage and conviction who are prepared with determination to take a stand and to take a principled stand and to take an uncompromising stand.”

As to why many of the themes that concern the international community kept coming back unresolved, he felt that “to a great extent” this was due to “the absence of a moral consensus.”

What a surprise all the comments are of the 'cosmopolitan' variety 🙄

is this a criticism of modernism or is he saying the church must be modernist?

It never has before so why should it start now 😂

Yes, the reality that women equal to men.

Since when?

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