Blog #13 CST handout

Reading about the Catholic’s social teaching was interesting and eye opening. When I read the beginning of section seven I did not agree how the Catholics tried to get their social teaching across to people. When reading that little passage it remind me of one of the topics we read in the previous chapters, how the Catholic were burning down town in order to show their control and it force people into converting. It was also ironic to read how it said the evil in the world is people trying to have power, when back in history Catholic were burning down towns and forcing people into their social teaching in order to have power. It was really interesting for me because I am Catholic, and just to learn more about the religion. I do agree with Pope Paul how we need to start thinking globally. It’s like when learn about how treat people, we need to look at the big picture in order to treat them correctly. It’s the same with the world in order to treat problems happening across the world we need to look at it globally the big picture in order to asset all areas of the problem and then take the appropriate route to solve the problems. When people just think locally or at the small picture they are missing other factor that are attributing to the problem, but when you look at the big picture it allowing you to take into consideration of all the factors, and as getting to the root of the problem. Pope Paul was really interesting to read about, he really showed his interested in the world. Especially when he was traveling around the world in order to see the problems the world is faced with that nobody see or hears about, or it is masked by other things. Pope Paul was really inspiring about how his interest in the world, and is theory of thinking globally, just reading about him I got the sense he was truly a man of the world. In my sociology class my professor has always been concerned with poverty because she experienced it firsthand. She had this theory to end poverty. She explained to us that people stay in poverty because they are forced to pay taxes despite them being already low on money, so they are always playing catch up. They are never really given a chance to get on their feet or to grow from there; it is like they are constantly stuck in that position. Then she proposed that the people in the lower class don’t have to pay taxes than they are able to make a better living for themselves and be able to work up the class system and live the American Dream. The upper class should pay taxes because they have enough money too, without their income being hurt by it. So instead of the lower class paying the upper class, the upper class should being paying the lower class, in order to avoid poverty.