On Postsecular Social Justice: A Perspective of Catholic Social Philosophy

In the unfolding context of Christian Charity, the world pattern has changed from the secular to the post-secular society, and the anachronistic view of secular social justice is bound to transition to a post-secularized perspective of social justice. In the first part of this article, the author will mainly clarify the idea conception of social justice of the Catholic Church through the Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching. Secondly, the author will further justify that the secularized social justice is a lacking value idea of Christian love and relational being. Therefore, in the trend of post-metaphysical thought, secularized social justice must be transformed into post-secularized social justice. Finally, the author will reject the secularized view of social justice from the relational ontological perspective of Christian Charity, and claim that the role and function of religion in a post-secularized society is the revelation and disclosure of relational ontology of Christian Charity. Therefore, in the author's opinion, the post-secularized social justice is to pay attention to subsidize and reconstruct the relationship network of Christian love, so that we can reconnect the source of Divine love.