I am interested in monographs (Logos format) that cover the function of this practice in the Catholic Church mostly from a modern perspective. Thanks!
Assuming you have a limited Catholic library try:
My fellow brothers and sisters, there now officially is a tool called magisterium AI. It’s somewhat similar to ChatGPT but it is actually trained on over 550 various different magisterial documents, and the list is still growing as the program collaborates with various different universities. Unlike ChatGPT, this tool can provide exact references in its answers. If you wish to learn more, feel free to check it out at magisterium.com; it’s a free tool to use and the site has more information about the sources that are used. I’m really hoping logos/verbum starts rolling out some new ai features soon!
Popular coverage:
The teachings themselves rather than interpretation
A bit of history
magisterium.com
I found the active site here: https://www.magisterium.com/
Sorry, I forgot that the link was bad when I copied it. Magisterium AI
Popular coverage: The Church’s Best-Kept Secret: A Primer on Catholic Social Teaching - Verbum yes, the author belongs to my longterm parish Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching - Verbum Handbook of Catholic Social Teaching: A Guide for Christians in the World Today - Verbum The teachings themselves rather than interpretation The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church - Verbum A bit of history Catholicism’s Developing Social Teaching - Verbum The Heart of Catholic Social Teaching: Its Origins and Contemporary Significance - Verbum
At what level is this doctrine implemented?
I'm not sure I understand the question. Despite the current disarray of the Catholic Church in the US (Catholics who have bought into American secular religion are passing themselves off as traditional), the social teaching is foundational - every wonder why Mother Teresa worked with the poor? why liberation theology got its foothold in Catholic countries? why Fr. Damien lived with lepers? why the St. Vincent de Paul lay society has over 800,000 members in 153 countries? why Pax Christi is a significant peace organization? why the Catholic archidiocese is one of the largest public housing developers in Western Washington? why families have "rice bowls" during Lent to collect money (not spent on meat) for charities? why my son's high school sent a group of sophomores to a Peruvian pueblo hoven to build a fence around a school so the parents could become literate? Any parish, especially small parishes, will reflect the interests of their pastor and their long-term members/leaders/volunteers so, yes, the amount of social doctrine embedded in a specific parish varies, but the concept that we are God's hands on earth is drilled in from an early age. So much so that we are startled when someone asks "are you saved?" ... of course as I am a member of the family of God, but that isn't my purpose - being the family's/God's hands on earth is.
the social teaching is foundational
the concept that we are God's hands on earth is drilled in from an early age.
I am a member of the family of God, but that isn't my purpose - being the family's/God's hands on earth is.
