Theo Prophets and Profits: Catholic Social Teaching and Economic Justice Summer 2016

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1 Theo Prophets and Profits: Catholic Social Teaching and Economic Justice Summer 2016 Monday through Friday, 12:30-3 p.m. Dr. Margaret Pfeil Module I: June 13 July 2 Office: 325 Malloy 202 DeBartolo Hall Phone: Mpfeil1@nd.edu Office Hours: Tuesday and Wednesday, 3-4 p.m., or by appointment Course Description This course will hold selected texts of Catholic social teaching in conversation with interlocutors across various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The primary goal will be to develop an account of economic justice rooted in the broader Catholic social tradition, engaging Scripture and the official teaching of the church through the centuries on issues such as private property, usury, and the demands of distributive, social, commutative, and contributive justice in the context of the common good. Students will become conversant with the concepts and language of Catholic social teaching related to economic justice and will be able to engage in contextual theology to address the ethical aspects of particular cases. Readings All readings will be available on the library e-reserve space for our course or on Sakai. In the case of episcopal or papal texts, unless otherwise noted, you may access them on the websites for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops or the Vatican. The following text is recommended: O Brien, David, and Thomas Shannon, eds. Catholic Social Thought. The Documentary Heritage. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1992, expanded edition 2010 (ISBN ).

2 Requirements Attendance Two or more absences will result in a lower final grade. Three or more absences will put one in danger of failing the course. If unforeseen circumstances interfere with class attendance, please contact the instructor immediately. A student facing a sudden medical or family emergency will need to follow appropriate procedures established by the Graduate School. Participation (20%) Please come to class prepared to enter into discussion of the assigned material. 3 Analytical Papers (45%) You are asked to write three analytical papers (4 pages, double-spaced, 12-point font) based on our assigned course material. In each paper, please present your own analysis of two or three main points emerging from the assigned readings for that class session. (In cases in which a particular class session is divided into two parts, please focus on the material for just one part of the session.) Each paper will be due on the date for which that particular material has been assigned, and you may choose the three class sessions for which you will write a paper. Case Study (35%) The main objective of the case study is to afford you the opportunity to consider a particular case and apply what you have learned about the Catholic social tradition and economic justice in a synthetic fashion. In choosing a case, please consider these questions: - Is this particular case of significance to the church and to the local community in which it occurs? - Will analysis of this particular case contribute to your own development academically, vocationally, and/or ministerially? - Does this case lend itself to a synthetic application of broad themes and concepts found in the Catholic social tradition? Structure of the Assignment: Please describe the relevant circumstances of the case and analyze it through the lens of our course material. You are not expected to draw heavily upon other material but may do so if necessary to develop your argument. The case study should be 5 pages, double-spaced, using a 12-point font. Due Date: June 27.

3 Honor Code Students are expected to abide by the standards of the University of Notre Dame s Honor Code. Calendar of Assignments June 13 a. Introduction and Overview b. Background: Catholic Social Teaching Principles and Concepts June 14 Creation, Jubilee, and Sabbath a. Genesis and the Universal Destination of Created Goods Book of Genesis, Ch. 1:1 2:25 Ellen Davis, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp b. Jubilee, Debt Relief, and Sabbath Norman Wirzba, Living the Sabbath (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2006), 30-41, Richard Lowery, Sabbath and Jubilee (Chalice Press 2000), (excerpt) Ched Myers, The Biblical Vision of Sabbath Economics (Washington D.C.: Church of the Savior, 2001), [Sakai] June 15 Jesus, Economic Justice, and the Early Church Mt. 25:14-30 Acts 2:1-47 a. The Parable of the Talents and the Acts of the Apostles Bruce Malina, The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology (John Knox Press, 1981), (excerpt)

4 Richard Rohrbaugh, A Peasant Reading of the Parable of the Talents/Pounds, Biblical Theology Bulletin 23:1 (Spring 1993), 32ff. Ched Myers, The Biblical Vision of Sabbath Economics (Washington D.C.: Church of the Savior, 2001), [Sakai] b. Basil of Caesaria Basil of Caesaria, In Time of Famine and Drought, Hom. 8, in Susan Holman, The Hungry Are Dying: Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappodocia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), Appendix pp Susan Holman, Hunger, Famine, Relief and Identity in Basil s Cappodocia, The Hungry Are Dying, pp Brian Daley, Building a New City: The Cappodocian Fathers and the Rhetoric of Philanthropy, (1998 NAPS Presidential Address), Journal of Early Christian Studies 7:3, June 16 Monastic Community a. The Benedictine Rule, Hospitality, and the Sacramentality of Creation The Rule of St. Benedict in English, ed. Timothy Fry, OSB (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1982), pp , Hugh Feiss, Watch the Crows: Environmental Responsibility and the Benedictine Tradition, in And God Saw That It Was Good Catholic Theology and the Environment, ed. Drew Christiansen and Walter Grazer (Washington: USCC, 1996), pp Jame Schaefer, Reverencing the Sacramental Universe, Theological Foundations for Environmental Ethics. Reconstructing Patristic & Medieval Concepts (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2009), b. Clare, Poverty, and Contemplation Clare of Assisi: Introduction, ; The Rule of St. Clare, (excerpt) pp Madge Karecki, Clare: Poverty and Contemplation in Her Life and Writings, in Peace Weavers. Medieval Religious Women, vol. 2, ed. John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1987), pp

5 John V. Kruse, The Embrace of Radical Poverty: Clare of Assisi s Unconventional Response to a World of Violence, in Violence, Transformation, and the Sacred: They Shall Be Called Children of God, ed. Margaret Pfeil and Tobias Winright (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2012), June 17 Aquinas, Private Property, and the Common Good Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II-II 32, a. 5 ad 2; 66.1, 2. New York: Benziger Bros., David Hollenbach, Poverty, Justice, and the Good of the City, in The Common Good and Christian Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), June 20 Interest-taking and Usury Ex. 22:25 Lev. 25: Dt. 23: Ez. 18:5-9 Psalm (14)15 Lk. 6:27-36 Jonsen, Albert R. and Stephen Toulmin. The Abuse of Casuistry. A History of Moral Reasoning. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988, , John Noonan, A Church that Can and Cannot Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), June 21 Industrial Revolution, Human Dignity, and Work a. Leo XIII, Rerum novarum (1891) b. John Paul II, Laborem exercens (1981) June 22 Quadragesimo anno and Distributive Justice a. John Ryan, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and Quadragesimo anno (1931) Pius XI, Quadragesimo anno (1931)

6 John A. Ryan, The Catholic Church and Social Questions, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences Vol. 165 (Jan. 1933), Thomas Massaro, Selected Goods and Positions within Catholic Social Teaching, in Catholic Social Teaching and United States Welfare Reform (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1998), b. The Catholic Worker and the Distributists Virgil Michel, Ownership, Number Two in The Social Question Series (pamphlet) (St. Paul: Wanderer Printing Co., 1935). Peter Maurin, Easy Essays (Washington, D.C.: Rose Hill Books, 2003, first published 1961), 3, 14-17, Robert Ellsberg, Introduction, xv-xli, and Dorothy Day, Aims and Purposes, , in Dorothy Day. Selected Writings, ed. Robert Ellsberg (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1992). [Sakai] Tobias Lanz, Introduction, in Flee to the Fields (Norfolk, Virginia: IHS Press, 2003), Harold Robbins, The Line of Approach, in Flee to the Fields (Norfolk, Virginia: IHS Press, 2003), G.K. Chesterton, The Outline of Sanity (Norfolk, Virginia: IHS Press, 2001), June 23 Economic Justice and Violence a. Possessions and Violence Dorothy Soelle, The Silent Cry. Mysticism and Resistance (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001), pp Thomas P. Slaughter, The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition, (New York: Hill and Wang, 2008), pp. 3-7, The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman, ed. Phillips. P. Moulton (Richmond, Indiana: Friends United Press, 1989), pp b. Human Rights, Duties, and Armaments John XXIII, Pacem in terris (1963) Vatican II, Gaudium et spes (1965)

7 Pope Francis, Address of the Holy Father, U.S. Congress, Sept. 24, 2015, available at June 24 Integral Human Development, Solidarity, Subsidiarity, and Globalization a. Populorum progressio and Sollicitudo rei socialis Paul VI, Populorum progressio (1967) John Paul II, Sollicitudo rei socialis (1987) Amartya Sen, The Ends and Means of Development, in Development As Freedom, pp b. Caritas in veritate and Gratuitousness Benedict XVI, Caritas in veritate (2009) Stefano Zamagni, Fraternity, Gift, and Reciprocity in Caritas in veritate Cultura Económica 75/76 (August/December 2009), Wendell Berry, The Idea of a Local Economy, available at: BerryTheIdeaofaLocalEconomy.doc Shane Claiborne, Economics of Rebirth, in The Irresistible Revolution, pp David Hollenbach, The Global Common Good, in The Common Good & Christian Ethics, pp June 27 Economy Liberalism, Communitarianism, Justice as participation and the Market a. U.S. Bishops, Economic Justice for All (1986)** David Hollenbach, Liberalism, Communitarianism, and the U.S. Bishops Pastoral Letter on the Economy, The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics (1987), pp Thomas Massaro, Fighting Poverty and Providing Safety Nets: An Agenda for US Catholic Advocacy in Social Policy, in The Almighty and the Dollar. Reflections on Economic Justice for All, ed. Mark J. Allman (Winona, Minnesota: Anselm Academic, 2012),

8 b. Centesimus Annus John Paul II, Centesimus annus (1991) David Hollenbach, Christian Social Ethics After the Cold War, in Readings in Moral Theology No. 10: John Paul II and Moral Theology, ed. Curran and McCormick, pp Michael Novak, Capitalism Rightly Understood, in The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, pp Todd Whitmore, John Paul II, Michael Novak, and the Differences between Them, The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics (2001), Vol. 21, pp June 28 a. Family as the Basic Unit of Civil Society and the Feminization of Poverty Maria Riley, Feminist Analysis: A Missing Perspective, in Readings in Moral Theology No. 10: John Paul II and Moral Theology, ed. Charles Curran and Richard McCormick, pp Gertrude S. Goldberg, Poor Women in Rich Countries: The Feminization of Poverty Over the Life Course (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), Chuck Collins and Mary Wright, Root Causes Part I. Values, Wages, and the Role of Government, in The Moral Measure of the Economy (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2007), , b. Immigrants, Refugees, Sovereignty, and the Global Economy Chuck Collins and Mary Wright, Root Causes Part II. Global Trade and the Power of Corporations, in The Moral Measure of the Economy (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2007), , Stephanie Nawyn, Welcoming the Stranger. Constructing an Interfaith Ethic of Refuge, Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants, ed. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007), Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Thitima Puttitanun, Ana P. Martinez-Donante, How Do Tougher Immigration Measures Affect Unauthorized Immigrants? Demographics 50 (2013), Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Suffering A Social Reality, in Suffering & Salvation in Ciudad Juárez (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011), pp

9 John Bowe, Nobodies. Does Slavery Exist in America? The New Yorker (April 21, 2003), on e-reserve and available at U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Mexican Episcopal Conference, Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope (2003) (Available online at June 29 The Intersection of Racial and Economic Justice a. Racial Justice Alex Mikulich, Where Y at Race, Whiteness, and Economic Justice? A Map of White Complicity in the Economic Oppression of People of Color, in The Almighty and the Dollar. Reflections on Economic Justice for All, ed. Mark J. Allman (Winona, Minnesota: Anselm Academic, 2012), Martin Luther King, Beyond Vietnam A Time to Break Silence (Riverside Church, New York City, April 4, 1967), available in written and audio form at: Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow. Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: The New Press, 2012, rev. ed.), pp b. Cooperatives and Food Justice - my chapter in Allman; Wendell Berry Margaret Pfeil, Becoming Synergoi: Food, Justice, and Economic Cooperation, in The Almighty and the Dollar: Reflections on Economic Justice for All, ed. Mark J. Allman (Winona, Minnesota: Anselm Academic, 2012) *[Sakai] Teresa Mares and Devon G. Peña, Environmental and Food Justice: Toward Local, Slow, and Deep Food Systems, , in Alison Alkon and Julian Agyeman, eds., Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability (Boston: MIT Press, 2011). Wendell Berry, Bringing It to the Table. On Farming and Food (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2009), , Race Matthews, Mondragón: The Role and Significance of Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta, , in Jobs of Our Own (Irving, Texas: The Distributist Review Press, 2009, 2 nd ed.). International Cooperative Alliance: Please take some time to look at their website:

10 June 30 Preferential Option for the Poor and Socioeconomic Inequality ** Suzanne McGee, Holidays offer chance to flaunt wealth -- and alarming reminder of inequality; While the country's richest are mulling over gifts like safaris and submarines, they are missing the threat that the wealth gap poses for the US as a whole, TheGuardian.com, Dec. 11, Latin American Episcopal Conference, Poverty of the Church, (Medellín, 1968) in The Gospel of Peace and Justice, ed. Joseph Gremillion (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1976), pp Amartya Sen, Poverty as Capability Deprivation, Development As Freedom (New York: Anchor Books, 2000), Paul Farmer, Listening for Prophetic Voices. A Critique of Market-based Medicine, Pathologies of Power (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), and Gustavo Gutiérrez, Preferential Option for the Poor, in Gustavo Gutiérrez. Essential Writings, ed. James B. Nickoloff (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1996), pp Latin American Bishops Conference (CELAM), The Puebla Final Document, in Puebla and Beyond, ed. John Eagleson and Philip Scharper, pp , July 1 Oikos: Ecology, Economy, and Ecological Debt Pope Francis, Laudato si (2015) Andrew Simms, Ecological Debt. The Health of the Planet and the Wealth of Nations (London: Pluto Press, 2005), Vandana Shiva, Water Wars. Privatization, Pollution, and Profit (Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 2002), pp Rob Hopkins, The Transition Handbook. From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience (White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008), pp , 84-93,

The Catholic Church, Social Justice, and Human Rights REL 4491/5497 Tuesday, Thursday 5:00 6:15 p.m. Williams 225 Fall 2003

The Catholic Church, Social Justice, and Human Rights REL 4491/5497 Tuesday, Thursday 5:00 6:15 p.m. Williams 225 Fall 2003 Contact Information: Aline H. Kalbian Dodd Hall 210 644-9878 akalbian@mailer.fsu.edu