JAVIER, PHILIPPE FAUSTO

LAGO, NEIL IAN

REY, RANEL SIMON

4ME-D
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

• Pope John XXIII

• Papacy from 1958-1963 Nov 25, 1881 – Jun 3, 1963
• Canonized Apr 27, 2014
• Issued Pacem In Terris April 11, 1963
• Last will and testament
• “Easter Gift”
• First encyclical addressed to “all people of goodwill”
 MAIN POINTS

i. Order in the Universe

ii. Relations Between Individuals and The Public Authority
iii. Relations Between States
iv. Relationship of Men and of Political Communities with the World
Community
v. Pastoral Exhortations
I. ORDER IN THE UNIVERSE
In world history marked by:
1. Wars
2. Powerful Weapons
3. Hunger for Power and Money
4. Sin
 • Society must be founded on the principle that every human person has freedom and
intelligence.

Every person has rights and duties

flowing from his/her nature
as a human being
WHAT ARE THE RIGHTS DEFENDED IN THE PT?

• Basic Rights (#11)

• Cultural and Moral rights (#12-13)
• Religious Rights (#14-16)
• Economic Rights (#18-22)
• Social Rights (#23-25)
• Political Rights (#26-27)
WHAT DUTIES ARE CONNECTED WITH THE
EXERCISE OF RIGHTS OF PERSONS?
• Acknowledge and respect rights of others (#30)
• Collaborate mutually (#31)
• Act for other responsibly (#34)
• “There is nothing human about a society that is welded together by force.”
• Each man should act on his own initiative, conviction, and sense of responsibility, not
under the constant pressure of external coercion or enticement.
 MEN ARE EQUAL
IN NATURAL DIGNITY
II. RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS AND THE
PUBLIC AUTHORITY
• Nature of Authority
• Chief duty of the ruling body
• Common good
• Eternal law
• Civil Rights
• Three-fold division of powers
• Individual rights towards the state and vice-versa
 III. RELATION BETWEEN STATES

• Disarmament
• Cold war
• United Nations
• Development of Common Good
• Subsidiarity, Justice and Truth
• Solidarity
• Rights and duties between states
• Vs. racism
• Three Motives
• Freedom among states
• Global Progress
IV. RELATIONSHIP OF MEN AND OF POLITICAL
COMMUNITIES WITH THE WORLD COMMUNITY
UNIVERSAL COMMON GOOD
When it comes to achieving peace in the world,
we must, in addition to reducing economic
disparities and ensuring that all people are treated
with dignity, strongly oppose war and the
preparations for war.
We make stronger efforts to build mutual
trust among the nations of the world and to
achieve peace through negotiations.
We have to build trust if we expect to achieve
peace. When trust is developed, fear disappears and
wonderful things can happen.
V. PASTORAL EXHORTATIONS

• “We exhort Our sons to take an active part in public life, and
to work together for the benefit of the whole human race, as
well as for their own political communities.” ( #146)
“May Christ inflame the desires of all
men to break through the barriers which
divide them, to strengthen the bonds of
mutual love, to learn to understand one another,
and to pardon those who have done them wrong. ”