The Formation of the Faithful and the Catechetical Method as an Imperative Need for the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church

Abstract

As an institution with an evangelical vocation, the Catholic Church is called to be the beacon that distributes the light of the apostolic tradition in a world in which she is a pilgrim, but to which she does not belong, as the Apostle teaches in her second epistle. to the Corinthians, (II Cor. X, III) "For although we live in the flesh, we do not fight according to the flesh" is its end and "telos" to pursue as an institution, the correct and healthy formation of all peoples, to believe and to live according to the gospel, what is known in the western magisterium as the “Salus Animarum”, which is materialized through long-standing catechesis, and it is through the millennial catechesis of the church, that it has been able to germinate as a flower fertile in the driest lands and has borne fruit in the most infertile swamps, the mission that forms the Catholic faith is its north, which in the words of Saint Pius P.P. X must be conceived "establishing everything in Christ" trying to be the formator of the new salt and light of the world (Mt. V, XIII-XIV).