Catholic Social Teaching(Participation)

By: Christian Coleman

Definition

• In Christian thought it means the complete dependence of creatures on the creator in order of efficient exemplary, and fine causality.

• Sharing or taking part in a common effort, glory, nature or movement.

Real life examples/Current events

Protestors gather to protest the death penalty as Robert Jackson III is put to death by lethal injection at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center Friday, July 29, 2011, in Smyrna, Del.

Real life examples/Current events

Marchers gather in San Francisco in 2009 on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the law that gave women the right to choose to have an abortion.

Quotes

• “It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” Mother Teresa

• “We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life - the unborn - without diminishing the value of all human life.” Ronald Reagan

• “Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.”Albert Camus, French philosopher

Photos

Bibliography

• (pro-choice and anti-abortion protest,flickr.com)

• (The Wilmington News-Journal, Andrew Renneisen, Protestors gather to protest the death penalty, yahoo.com)

• (Catholic encyclopedia, participation)• (all the best quotes, chatna.com)

• I have neither given nor received any unauthorized aid on this assignment…