Preliminaries

Understanding our context

Basic Premises

Law School
1. Remember OrSem?
Why Am I Here activity
2. Truly, you have your reasons

The
ATENEO
Law School
And we...
...We have our reasons

Your Reason

Our HOPE

ALS Reason
One day
those 2
reasons will
intersect

Our Purpose...
...Our Mission
1. Catholic
2. Jesuit

When we say
CATHOLIC
Jesus Christ
(Good Shepherd)

Kernel of Truth

Institution of the Church

Apostles
Evangelists
Church Fathers
Hierarchical Church

History of this Church...

... Brokenness: Hit and Miss

If we go back to the
Beginning
JC Event
Apostles
Evangelists
Church Fathers
What we know

Church Hierarchy

Redemption

Ongoing
task

Key Moments
Middle Ages: Just War Theory
Renaissance: World and Nature
Technological Era: Industrialization

BUT Still...

A very closed-minded, exclusivist Church

Rise of Socialism

Rerum Novarum (1911)

Pope Leo XIII
Homo Faber

Quadrogessimo Anno
Pope Pius XI
Unfair
Structures

Subsidiarity

Mater et Magistra
Pope John XXIII

Address
to a
global Church

Pacem in Terris
To all people of goodwill

Cold War Era

shortly after the

Cuban Missile
Crisis

Gaudium et Spes
VATICAN II

Populorum Progressio
Pope Paul VI
Development = Peace
Development of Persons

Laborem Exercens
Pope John Paul II
The Dignity of Labor
(Humanitys participation
to ongoing creation)

Sollicitudo Rei Socialis

Preferential Option
for the Poor

Centesimus Annus
Idolatry of the Market
Culture of having instead of
being

Tertio Millennio Adveniente

Universal Call
to

Repentance and Conversion

Pope Benedict XVI

Spe Salvi

Deus
Caritas
Est

Caritas in Veritate
In an entire context of
forgiveness and apology as well
as gratitude. This is in view of the
scandal and failure of the church
shepherds upon the flock.

Vatican II
Window to
the World
Acceptance

Contextualization

Mission of the Church

Imago Dei

Jesuits

Charism: The world is beautiful and

good. God is in the world, find Him!

Law
We are at a privileged vantage point
What do we fight for
What do we believe in

Most Relevant
To understand the Church
To understand why this is taught
To understand what this means for
Ateneo
What this means for Ateneans

Weve wasted enough

Weve been in positions to make the diff
and we did not!

God saves this world

This world! of today and now

There is good in it then

Remember OrSem

It was not simply a cheezy idealistic wish

list when we were asked to write our
reasons for coming

Your Reason

ALS Reason

We shall
change world.