Let Dignity & Justice Flourish
Let Dignity and Justice Flourish is a video-based resource accompanied by facilitator guides, scripture and reading materials designed to support leaders in Catholic health care engage the Catholic social tradition and apply it meaningfully in today’s health care environment. This resource introduces three foundational principles: Human Dignity, the Common Good, and Social Justice and connects them to the realities of Catholic health care. Additional principles will be added to this series over time, creating a growing formation and educational pathway for those who serve the healing ministry.
Two Ways to Use This Resource
- Formation Programs and Experiences: Ideal for mission and formation leaders seeking content for formation programs. Leaders experienced in presenting this content indicated these three principles are a critical entry point into the Catholic social tradition and are particularly applicable to the work of health care ministry. The accompanying facilitator guides provide additional materials, sample prompts, methods for engagement and application, as well as spiritual practices, prayers, and more. Ministry leaders may download the video resources in both short and long form versions for integration into presentations, intranets and learning management systems.
- Self-Paced, Asynchronous Learning: While the resource is intended to be used for group formation programs and experiences, individuals can engage the content independently. The content can be useful as a refresher or a primer for formation experiences or professional and spiritual growth.
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This is a CHA member-only resource.
Human Dignity
Human dignity lies at the heart of the Catholic social tradition. All human life is created in the image and likeness of God and thus possesses an inherent and transcendent dignity simply by being human. The Church teaches that our human dignity is inviolable and must be reverenced, protected and defended for every human being.
Common Good
The Catholic tradition defines the common good as the sum total of conditions that allow people to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily, either as groups or as individuals. It involves the social structures and conditions that can lead to human flourishing.
Social Justice
Social Justice refers to the structural requirements for a virtuous and just society. This view of justice evaluates public institutions within a society. It focuses on the functioning of major public institutions of the legal, economic, social or political order. And so, social justice serves to evaluate society's essential institutions in terms of their ability to satisfy an individual's minimum needs and basic rights.
