Day 317: International Justice and Solidarity (2024)

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 12 November 2024

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Summary

Internationally, there is often a large gap in the resources between countries. The Catechism explains the justice and solidarity that should exist among all nations, rich and poor. Rich nations have a duty of solidarity, charity, and justice to support nations who are unable to fully ensure their own development. Fr. Mike emphasizes that direct aid is not all the Church advocates for, but that we also have a duty to help reform these nations. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2437-2442.

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 a Year podcast,
0:09.3	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through
0:13.2	the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.0	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:24.4	This is Day 317. We're reading paragraphs 2437 to 2442. As always, I am using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a 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
0:42.3	slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow, or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and
0:46.4	the other notifications. Why does it every day? I don't know. They just told me to mention all
0:50.2	those things every single day. And so if you like being reminded of them, then you don't need to hit the 30 seconds skip ahead twice. You can just listen to all of it. As I said, it's day 317,
0:59.2	paragraphs 2437 to 2442. We're looking at now an eye towards international, not like international governance,
1:06.6	international politics, really international justice and solidarity between nations, hence the term
1:13.1	international. The recognition here, paragraph 2437 teases up again, kind of like yesterday,
1:18.5	and says on the international level, inequality of resources and economic capability is such
1:23.5	that it creates a real gap between nations. On one side, there are nations that possess a ton.
1:28.3	That's my paraphrase. On the other side, there are nations that are in greater need. And so,
1:33.5	what is the relationship between nations? What is the international or economic, global
1:40.3	relationship amongst countries? And so we're going to look at that a little bit here,
1:45.0	particularly with an eye to justice. Remember, we don't necessarily, are advocating or saying
1:50.0	any particular policies are the answer, but we're looking at what are the principles,
1:54.6	what are the virtues by which we should be looking at this very often, very, very complicated
2:00.4	reality of living in a world where we're all
2:03.9	in many ways interconnected, even at the same time. Some are strong, some are weak, and yet
2:10.2	sometimes the strong countries don't necessarily have the right decisions, and sometimes the
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