Social sins

Social sins . Some sins , in particular, constitute by their very object a direct assault on others. These sins qualify as social sins.

Summary

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• 1 Social sins
  • 1 Gandhi’s social sins
  • 2 Social sins of the Church
• 2 John Paul II
• 3 Sources

Social sins

Although all sin is personal, because it is an act of freedom of a particular man, and not properly of a group or community , it is at the same time social: “by virtue of a human solidarity as mysterious and imperceptible as it is real and concrete, the sin of each one has repercussions in a certain way on the others. ” For this reason the Church , when it speaks of situations of sin or denounces as social sins certain situations or collective behaviors of more or less broad social groups, or even of entire nations and blocs of nations, knows and proclaims that these cases of social sin are the fruit, the accumulation and concentration of many personal sins. The real responsibilities belong to the people.

Gandhi’s social sins

Mahatma Gandhi defines 7 social sins:

1. Politics without principles
2. Economy without morals
3. Well-being without work
4. Characterless education
5. Science without humanity
6. Enjoy without conscience
7. Worship without sacrifice

Social sins of the Church

Lust , gluttony , greed , laziness, anger , envy and pride are the historical seven deadly sins , listed by Pope Gregory I 1,500 years ago and later collected by Dante Alighieri in ” The Divine Comedy “. Now, the Vatican , through the ‘Osservatore Romano’, the official newspaper of the Holy See, speaks of a new list, which is added to the classic: “social sins.”

1. Bioethical violations, such as contraception .
2. The experiments morally dubious, such as research on stem cells .
3. The drug .
4. Pollute the environment .
5. Help widen the gap between rich and poor.
6. Excessive wealth.
7. Generate poverty.

The declaration was made by Archbishop Gianfranco Girottio , in the middle of Lent , the liturgical period in which practicing Catholics prepare for the most important Christian holiday, which is Easter .

“One not only offends God and neighbor if he steals, or if he swears in the name of the Lord in vain, or if he desires the wife of another, but also offenses against God and neighbor if, for example, he harms himself the environment, or experiments are performed that manipulate DNA or damage embryos. ” (…) “Within bioethics there are areas where we absolutely must denounce some violations of the fundamental rights of human nature through experiments and genetic manipulation whose results are difficult to predict and control.”

Archbishop Gianfranco Girottio

John paul ii

The Pope John Paul II , made the following definition of social Sin:

“All sin committed against the rights of the human person is social, beginning with the right to life , or against the physical integrity of someone … The Church … knows and proclaims that these cases of social sin are the fruit, the accumulation and concentration of many personal sins. These are very personal sins of those who engender, favor or exploit iniquity ; of those who, being able to do something to avoid, eliminate, or, at least, limit certain social evils, omits to do so due to laziness , fear and concealment , due to sneaky complicity or indifference ; … and also of those who intend to avoid thefatigue and sacrifice, citing alleged reasons of a higher order. Therefore, the real responsibilities lie with the people. ”

The highest hierarch of the church of the last millennium raised in his teaching about “social sin” and that he only applied it to political, economic or social structures of our convulsed and materialized society. Nobody is saved from these types of sins, because either by action or omission we have been participants in them, which means that no one in a daring way dares to throw the first stone .

In the Encyclical Reconciliation and Penance he continues to tell us that some sins, in particular, constitute, by their very object, a direct attack on others. These sins qualify as social sins.

“Thus, all sin committed against justice in the relationships between person and person, between the person and the community, and between the community and the person is considered as social. Any sin against the rights of the human person is social, beginning with the right to life, including that of the unborn, or against the physical integrity of someone; all sin against the freedom of others, especially against the freedom to believe in God and worship him; all sin against the dignity and honor of others Any sin against the common good and against its demands, in the entire broad sphere of the rights and duties of citizens, is social.In short, the sin that refers to the relationships between different human communities is social.