Civil Society, Social Capital in Health Care, and Catholic Social Spirituality
摘要
This chapter discusses the necessity of progressive learning of Catholic social teaching and participation in civil society as essential elements of Catholic health workers’ lay Catholic social spirituality. It contends that an active involvement in civil society’s non-government organizations and people’s social networks that advocate healthcare reforms is a necessary macro component of health practitioners’ social spirituality to uphold the rights of the poor. It also argues that attaining personal holiness requires a structural strategy to reform the current commodification of health, specifically joining Catholic and non-Catholic social movements and organizations that lobby for equitable healthcare system as a constitutive dimension of a lay Catholic social spirituality.