The art of accompaniment
Pope Francis’s recent document on evangelization, Evangelii Gaudium, emphasizes option for the poor and solidarity as key components of our mission outreach. He suggests that this outreach move beyond simply providing “welfare projects” and focus on real relationship and walking with those who are p...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2015
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Missiology
Year: 2015, Volume: 43, Issue: 3, Pages: 324-338 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KCB Papacy KDB Roman Catholic Church NCC Social ethics RJ Mission; missiology RK Charity work |
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| Summary: | Pope Francis’s recent document on evangelization, Evangelii Gaudium, emphasizes option for the poor and solidarity as key components of our mission outreach. He suggests that this outreach move beyond simply providing “welfare projects” and focus on real relationship and walking with those who are poor and vulnerable. He insists that all people must become the “artisans of their own destiny,” and that we must develop solutions to poverty focusing on education and employment. This theology of mission is consistent with previous Catholic Church teaching. What has been missing is a framework for putting the theology into concrete practice, and as a result mission outreach to the poor still tends to be devoted to “welfare projects.” Catholic Relief Services has developed such a framework, called Integral Human Development (IHD). This article will describe and analyze Pope Francis’s teaching on “the inclusion of the poor in society” as mission, and then show how IHD incarnates this teaching. Finally, using examples, including from my own work in Haiti, I will show how IHD can be applied to church-to-church partnerships and other mission programs. |
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| ISSN: | 0091-8296 |
| Contains: | In: Missiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0091829614563062 |