Graduate School of Religion and Religious Studies Fordham University

Analysis for Ministry PMGR-6780-R01 Spring 2016 Thursday 7:00-8:50 P.M.

Joseph Sands, S.J., Ph.D. Office hours by appointment [email protected] 718-817-9101

Course Description

This course assists ministers of the Gospel to reflect on their pastoral practice in the context of the social doctrine of the Church and current political and economic analyses. Topics of analysis include urban poverty, economic inequality, democratic participation, immigration reform and global development.

Course Objectives

1) Critically appropriate the historical trajectory of from Pope Leo XIII to . 2) Understand the dynamic relationship between Catholic Social Teaching and contemporary political and economic analyses. 3) Analyze the context of your pastoral ministry from an integrated theological, political and economic perspective.

Course Requirements

Completion of each reading assignment and full participation in class discussion.

Submission of eight response papers due at the start of the respective class meeting.

One class presentation in which you summarize and critique the assigned readings.

Submission on or before May 5, 2016, of a position paper written to the Archbishop of New York regarding a specific local application of any theological, political or economic issue addressed in this course.

Deadlines will not be extended.

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Required texts

Documents of the and Papal , exhortations and letters are available at www.vatican.va.

Chang, Ha-Joon. 2008. Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. New York: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN: 978-1-59691-598-5 Heyer, Kristin E. 2012. Kinship Across Borders: A Christian Ethic of Immigration. Washington, D.C.: Gerogetown University Press. ISBN: 978-1589019300 Kozol, Jonathan. 2012. Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation. New York: Broadway Books. ISBN: 978-0770435660 Pierson, Paul and Jacob S. Hacker. 2010. Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN: 978-1-4165-8869-6 Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. 2005. Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. Washington, D.C.: USCCB Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-57455-692-6

Secondary sources O’Brien, David J. and Thomas A. Shannon, eds. 1992. Catholic Social Thought: The Documentary Heritage. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. ISBN: 0-88344-787-8

Himes, Kenneth R., ed. 2005. Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. ISBN: 978-1-58901-053-6

Schedule of Meetings

Week 1 Fitzpatrick, J. New Directions in the Social Apostolate [1,40] Schloesser, S. Jesuit Hybrids, Catholic Modernities, Future Pasts

Week 2 Compendium, 1: God’s Plan of Love for Humanity Gaudium et Spes [1-45] Kozol, chapters 1-3

Week 3 Compendium, 2: The Church’s Mission and Social Doctrine Leo XIII, Kozol, 4-6

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Week 4 Compendium, 3: The Human Person and Human Rights Pius XI, Pierson and Hacker, Introduction, 1-3

Week 5 Compendium, 4: Principles of the Church’s Social Doctrine John XXIII, Pierson and Hacker, 4-6

Week 6 Compendium, 8: The Political Community Paul VI, Pierson and Hacker, 7-10.

Week 7 Compendium, 11: The Promotion of Peace Paul VI, Octogesima Adveniens Evangelii Nuntiandi

Week 8 Compendium, 10: Safeguarding the Environment Benedict XVI,

Week 9 Spring Break

Week 10 Francis,

Week 11 Francis, Laudato Sí

Week 12 Compendium, 5: The Family, The Vital Cell of Society Heyer, Intro, 1-2

Week 13 Compendium, 9: The International Community Heyer, 3-5

Week 14 Compendium, 6, Human Work Chang, 1-3

Week 15 Compendium, 7: Economic Life Chang, 4-6

Week 16 Chang, 7-9

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