The Catholic Intellectual Tradition is the understanding of human concepts that is significant to the common good of society, while preserving and holding true to the Catholic Faith. Through God’s liberation activity in the world, both Fr. Gustave Gutierrez and Dorothy Day have contributed to the faith to American society. The works of Gutierrez and Day, share similar concepts of social justice, peacemaking and advocating for the poor. Gutierrez is considered the founder of Liberation Theology, which involves political and social liberation to poverty and injustice. He interprets his teaching of liberation from the Gospels teaching of Jesus Christ. Gutierrez emphasizes on the importance of God’s preferential love for the poor and their struggles for justice. The interpretation of the “preferential option for the poor” was not only for the struggles from an economic view, but more diverse on how society is structured. “Being poor means being rendered socially insignificant due to ethnic, cultural, gender, and/or economic factors.” (Gutierrez) Gutierrez express his concerns on how society causes poverty, it is not merely …show more content…
Day was an American journalist and social activist who showed leadership, determination and courage. She is well known for her philanthropic efforts in aiding the poor that lead to providing food and shelter for homeless. “He has shown Himself to us in them. We start by loving them for Him, and we soon love them for themselves…” (Day) Along with fellow activist Peter Maurin, she established The Catholic Workers Movement to aim and to make aware of church teaching on social justice and to live accordance to the justice and charity of the teaching of Jesus Christ. She was a woman of true selflessness, who was compassionately driven to put the lives of the broken before her own. Her vision was to share how society can be constructed through the views of the Gospel