Day 254: Social Justice (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
We begin to look at social justice as outlined by the Catechism by diving into two aspects: respect for the human person and equality and differences among men. The dignity of the human person is at stake without social justice. Fr. Mike highlights that since we are all made in the image and likeness of God, we are all equal in dignity and are to love everyone including our enemies. With that, we must recognize that we are not all the same and work towards fairer conditions for all. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1928-1938.
This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in Ear podcast, where we |
| 0:09.5 | encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through |
| 0:13.5 | the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in Ere is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.1 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our and God's family as we journey together toward our heavily home. This is Day 254. Congratulations for making it today. We're reading paragraphs 1928 to 1938. As always, I'm using the Ascentian edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. But you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 254, paragraph 1928 to 1938. Social justice is Article 3. Social justice yesterday. We had Article 2. We |
| 0:55.1 | concluded Article 2. And Article 2 was all about our need to participate in social life. |
| 0:59.7 | We talked about authority, the common good. Remember that? Responsibility and participation? |
| 1:03.3 | Today, Social justice is Article 3. We were going to highlight two essential elements of social |
| 1:09.1 | justice. One is, respect for the human person. Remember, we spent a lot of |
| 1:13.9 | time with, I think I've said this every day in the last six days. We spent a long time talking about |
| 1:18.2 | the individual human dignity, right? We're made in God's image and likeness. So social justice can be |
| 1:22.9 | obtained only in respecting the transcendent dignity of man, right? That's paragraph 1929. |
| 1:28.2 | So social justice is a thing. |
| 1:29.8 | We want not just individuals to have justice. |
| 1:32.2 | We want our society to be just. |
| 1:33.9 | Yes, that is important. |
| 1:35.6 | But it's essential that that is based off of the respect for the individual, respect for the human person. |
| 1:41.4 | And we're also going to talk about equality and differences between people. In fact, that's the next little bullet is equality and differences among men. So those are the two pieces we're going to highlight today. When we talk about social justice, keep this in mind, always, always. Whenever we talk about social justice, in fact, the term, I believe this term was coined by Catholics. I think it was maybe some Jesuits who originally talked |
| 2:02.5 | social justice. And this is going to be the, you know, we use that phrase quite often in our |
| 2:07.0 | culture now, but this is going to be what we believe is true Christian social justice, as opposed to |
| 2:12.1 | something that might try to override or subordinate the dignity of the human person. Again, it's all |
| 2:17.4 | the peace. And so keep this in mind. We're talking about dignity of the human person. Again, it's all of a peace. |
| 2:18.8 | And so keep this in mind. |
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