The church’s involvement in the integral human development of the people of Kagoma parish in light of caritas in veritate

Abstract

The major focus of this dissertation is an attempt to understand effectively the concept of integral human development and how it can be carried. It is based on the observation that humanity still experiences a lot of challenges that hinder holistic authentic human development. It focuses also on how the Church should get involved in guiding people towards the desired integral development intended to work for the common good. Chapter one clearly introduces the concept under study. Chapter two offers through the visited literature the comprehensive understanding of integral human development in light of Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict’s 3rd encyclical of 2009, explained challenges to authentic development which are still greatly experience, and then how the Church should get involved in integral human development amidst the complexities in the modern world. As chapter three offers a methodology used for the study, chapter four presents the data from the field exposing how people of Kagoma parish handle challenges of development with chapter five giving analytical discussions of the concept referring to chapters two and four. In chapter six, there are conclusions and recommendations that will help humanity and the Church as will to attain integral human development intended to serve the good of all and ends with a general conclusion appealing to all stakeholders to play their part with proper implementation of the recommendations suggested.