jim mcmanus, cpsychol, mfph, meps asst director public health barking & dagenham pct

Witness

PresenceResponse

Faith Community Roles: Putting our Capabilities and Roles in Theological ContextTowards a Catholic Understanding

Jim McManus,CPsychol, MFPH, MEPS

Asst Director Public Health

Barking & Dagenham PCT

Summary

InterpretationStarting Points for Agencies –

Community and their Care NeedsStaring Point for Christians –

Community and Social Mission in Theological Context

Not going to focus on The problem of Evil, that’s for another day

Starting Point 1: An Attempt

Interpretation/HermeneusisHistorical engagement of christianity

with social servicesPublic Theology – The ChurchExpediency and Capability - EPOs

Starting Point 2: A Process

Msgr Joseph Dore, Archbishop of Strasbourg

La Responsibilite des Theologiens (Paris, Desclee, 2002)

Go Ad Fontes Serve the Debate: Church and World Articulate the Dimensions Scientific and Confessional Theology as a Practical Tactic

Civil Contingencies Act 2004 Risk Assessment - Conduct risk assessment, in conjunction with others, to assess

the range of emergences faced and the risk of those emergencies making it necessary for the organisation to respond on the basis of its existing functions.

Planning Arrangements - In light of the risk assessment, draw up and maintain plans: To prevent the emergency occurring /Reduce, control and mitigate its effects /To refine plans

in the light of ongoing risk assessment /For responding to and recovering from an emergency /To publish risk assessments and plans /To include the provision for exercise and training of staff

Business Continuity PlanningPlans must be in place to enable the organisation to deliver those functions which may be required in an emergency.

Warning and InformingMaintain arrangements for warning and informing the public if an emergency is likely to occur or has occurred and for providing them with advice.

Sharing InformationProvide information to partner organisations so that they can complete risk assessments and plans.

Co-operationCat 1 and 2 responders to co-operate with each other both within and beyond the context of multi agency groups.

Promotion of Business Continuity Management (Local Authorities only)Provide advice and assistance to the public in relation to the continuance of commercial activity in the event of an emergency.

Slide courtesy of the Emergency Planning College andHealth Protection Agency

Responder Categories

Category 1 Local Authorities

PoliceFire & Rescue ServiceAmbulance ServicesNational Health Service Trustsincluding PCTsThe Environment Agency

Category 2 Railway Operators

Airport OperatorsHarbour AuthoritiesHighways AuthorityHealth & Safety ExecutiveUtilitiesElectric GasWaterPhone (Voice & Data)

The NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 2005, prerogatesStrategic Health Authorities with a range of functions

CCA Duties – Business Continuity

“Category 1 responders to maintain plans to ensure that they can continue to perform their functions in the event of an emergency..… to be able to maintain their own crisis response capabilities and to continue to deliver critical aspects of their day-to-day functions.”

Schematic Framework CCA

Faiths get their house in order

Faiths can Assist CCA Responders

CCA is not the whole story….. Control of Major Accident Hazards

Regulations 1999 (COMAH) Nuclear - Nuclear Emergency

Planning Liaison Group (NEPLG) Consolidated Guidance

Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations (REPPIR) 2001

NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 2005

Exotic Animal Disease Generic Contingency Plan

Food and Environment Protection Act 1985

Food Safety Act 1990 Railway Regulation Act 1840; Official Secrets Act 1911; Civil Aviation Act 1982; Serious Organised Crime and

Police Act 2005

Water: Security and Emergency Measures Direction 1998

Fuel: Energy Act 1976, Energy Act 2004 and the

Downstream Oil Emergency Response Plan

Power: Electricity Supply Emergency Code and the

Gas Supply Emergency Arrangements, Gas Act 1986 and the Electricity Act 1989

ransport: Railways Act 1993, Airports Act 1986

Communications: BBC Agreement, 1996

Communications Act 2003, Telecommunications Act 1984,

NHTCU, Central Sponsor for Information Assurance and Resilience

Civil Contingencies Act 2004 schedule 2 Obstruction:

Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Act 2006

The NHS is different…again!

NHS Defines a major incident differently from the CCA, as required under the 2005 Guidance

This may mean NHS triggers a major incident when others do not – therefore Chaplains and Clergy may find themselves having to deal with this

Example – Heatwave Major Incidents at two levels for some NHS agencies – one level where NHS itself may declare, another level where an MI must be declared

The Cycle of Emergency Planning

Faith Communities can help assess risks to their communities and population as a whole.

Discuss plans for fatalities at this stage. Decide if they need their own Plan or a section within the main plan.

Use the table of capabilities to help set objectives for what Faith Communities can do. Conduct a scoping exercise with them where they review their own capabilities with someone to facilitate

Ensure faith communities buy into the plan and their roles. Ensure Faith Forum or LSP sign off

Detail faith community roles and responsibilities, methods of engagement and call out. Develop Faith community plan. Do they need their own co-ordinator (some areas have this as an unpaid role. Others make a contribution to costs.)

Ensure training is provided to the Faith Communities and that they cascade training down. Provide specific training on their roles and engage them in exercises

Get Faith Communities to disseminate the plan and their own plan if they have one. Ensure statutory agencies are clear on Faith Communities’ roles

Faith Forum participate in exercises appropriately, but also conduct their own exercises with their own co-ordinator

Ensure regular review by Faith Communities and by Emergency Planning Group/LRF as appropriate. Ensure contacts are up to date.

Proposition 1: Christian Churches in the UK have historically been

present in most major disasters and long term crises/challenges Employment and poverty, Wars, The 1918 pandemic

There has been no single faith monopoly despite the interests of some denominations to claim so

Nor is there any basis in law for the priority of any denomination – the ethos is of service not locus

There is a clear role for faith communities The job is bigger than any single faith group can deliver Catholics and Jews punched above their weight The Church has significant history of Ministry in

Disasters and Crises (Plague, War,Famine)

Frank Prochaska (2006) Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain. Oxford University Press

Back to Starting Point

Historical engagement of christianity with social servicesBrings new challenges Interpretation/Hermeneusis of the

legislation to the Church Interpretation of the Church to EPOs

Proposition 2:

There is a preliminary to the Act of InterpretationWe need to have a clear self-

understanding as a Church of what we want to Interpret

That self understanding is primarily theological or it is inadequate

Capability and functions follow our understanding of mission (Gaudium et Spes)

Proposition 3:

Non Catholic Christians may be puzzled with extensive use of Magisterial documents rather than Scripture

But starting with the Magisterium is starting with a Scriptural perspective, because the teachings of the Church are steeped in Scripture

From there we can see how other theologies have understood this

Where to start theologically?

1. Start from the the Human Condition (Theological Anthropology)

2. Then work on how this sits with the Church’s Understanding of Itself (Ecclesiology)

3. Move outwards to Social Mission and Doctrine (Social Theology)

4. Creating and Sustaining Capability Pastoral, Sacramental, Social, Moral Theology

5. Doctrine of God Implicit and Central Throughout6. This perspective is both Christological and

Pneumatological even if my Doctrine of the Godhead needs developing

The Cycle of a Theology of Major Incidents

Self UnderstandingEkklesia

Doctrine of GodDoctrine of Holy

Spirit

Immanent Trinity

Action Mode 1 Catechesis


Ecclesiology,

AnthropologySelf Understanding

Ekklesia


Spirit

Immanent Trinity


Humanity Human being both corporeal and spiritual (CCC,362) Trinitarian Love : the origin and goal of the human person

(Compendium, 34ff) [Social Nature of this] Inalienable Dignity (CCC,357) Social Nature (Compendium, 37) Duties of Justice arise from social nature (Compendium, 61,

77,92) Human need must be addressed (Solicitudo Rei Socialis

34, Populorum Progressio 48) for Genuine Peace (Pacem in Terris 9, 11) The Common Good (Gaudium et Spes,26) Human Ecology (a social dimension) (Centesimus Annus, 38) The State and Church as both important in the Common Good

and the social body (Compendium, 424ff) Fragility and Vulnerability (Dolentium Hominum)

The duties arising from the Commandment to Loveour Neighbour

Gaudium et Spes If

the common good is.. the sum total of social conditions which allow people

either as groups or individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and easily. Every social group must take account of the needs and legitimate aspirations of other groups, and even of the general welfare of the entire human family (Gaudium et Spes, 26)

Then Emergency Planning and Emergency Response is a

clear constituent of what makes up the Common Good And

the Church has an interest per se, because it touches on the personalist principle at the centre of its social teaching

Gaudium et Spes If

the common good is.. the sum total of social conditions which allow people

either as groups or individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and easily. Every social group must take account of the needs and legitimate aspirations of other groups, and even of the general welfare of the entire human family (Gaudium et Spes, 26)

Then Emergency Planning and Emergency Response is a

clear constituent of what makes up the Common Good And

the Church has an interest per se, because it touches on the personalist principle at the centre of its social teaching

And all this sits well beside the position of Law and Guidance on how public authorities should co-operate with communities

•Office of 3rd Sector•Local Govt Acts 1999,2000,2002, •Local Govt and Involvement in Health Bill•Sustainable Communities •Civil Contingencies Act 2004

THE COMMON GOOD AS DEFINED BY GAUDIUM ET SPES BECOMES A CLEAR MANIFESTO FOR THE CHURCH TO RESPOND TO ITS RESPONSIBILITIES

Ecclesiology picks up on Anthropology

One complex reality which comes together from both a human and a divine element (LG, 8) (mirrors anthropology in CCC 362)

The Church, Mystery of our union with God (CCC,772) Christ the source of Mission/Ministry in the Church

(CCC,874) Christ gave it mission, orientation and goal

The Church stands with every man and woman of every place and time (Compendium, 60) Solidarity (Solicitudo Rei Socialis, 38) The Church is a sign and instrument of communion with God

and unity among humans – (LG,1) Church’s charitable activity as a manifestation of Trinitarian

Love (Deus Caritas Est 19ff) A minister to human vulnerability and a witness to human

wholeness (Fragilita e Salute, Benedict XVI Nov 2006)

The church in love of God and love of Neighbour has aParticular calling to witness and action in the social realm


Ecclesiology,


Ekklesia


Spirit

Immanent Trinity


Call to WitnessKerygma

Economic Trinity

Doctrine of Salvation

KEY POINT: Our motive in witnessing is love and the wellbeing of the person, arising from our understanding of who we

as humans and who we as Church are

Our Call to Witness is essentially linked to Trinitarian Love, and to the origin and goal of humankind



Ecclesiology,


Ekklesia


Spirit


Immanent Trinity

Economic Trinity

Action Modes 2Building Capability within a framework


Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework: The Church Together

“Love faces a vast field of work and the Church is eager to make her contribution with her social doctrine, which concerns the whole person and is addressed to all people” Compendium, 5

All Christ’s faithful must be conscious of the responsibility To play their part (Canon 781)

The Bishop, uniting and moulding local church - “being ready for every good work” (2 Tim 2:21) as focus of unity in the local Church. Christus Dominus 11,16

Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework: Collaboration with Legitimate Authorities

The Church and the political community can more effectively render this service “for the good of all if each works better for wholesome mutual co-operation in a way suitable to the circumstances of time and place” [GS,76]

Compendium,425…the spontaneity of individuals must be combined with planning, foresight and co-operation with other similar institutions”

Deus Caritas Est,31

Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework: Formation

Concern throughout Magisterial Documents that people are not given to apostolates for which they are neither formed nor suited

There is a duty for them to seek formation, and for Church to provide it Lay People – Canon 231~1. Apostolicam Actuositatem

– 2,28,29 Priests – Presbyterium Ordinis 19 (Formation and study

for pastoral activity. Duty of Bishop to provide it) (today!) Bishops – Christus Dominus

Co-operation with clergy and religious 28ffCo-operation with each other

Religious – Religious and Human Advancement 5ff, (role) 32ff (formation)

Collaboration between the various strands ofChrist’s faithful are written throughout the documents ofVatican II, post conciliar documents and the CIC

Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework: Distinctive Qualities of Formation

“We are dealing with human beings, and human beings always need something more than technically proper care. They need humanity...

Consequently, in addition go their necessary professional training, these Ccharity workers need a formation of the heart ….as a result, love of neighbour [will be] a consequence deriving from their faith, a faith which becomes active through love [Gal 5:6] ” (Deus Caritas Est, 31)

Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework: The Proper Role of Expertise

In accord with the knowledge, competence and pre-eminence which they possess, lay people have the right and even at times a duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church, and they have a right to make their opinion known to the other Christian faithful….with consideration for the common good and the dignity of persons

Codex Iuris Canonici, 212 #3

Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework: Respect for Religious Freedom

Respect for religious freedom of others “The dignity of the person and the very nature of

the quest for God require that all should be free from every constraint in the area of religion” (Dignitatis Humanae,2)

“…a religious community might be given a special recognition on the part of the State.Such recognition must in no way create discrimination within the civil or social order for other religious groups” (DH,6)

Christian or non-Christian collaboration with State in Emergency Planning does not mean pre-eminence and must not allow that faith body to interfere with the religious freedom of anyone else

Benedict XVI on Proselytism

Charity, furthermore, cannot be used as a means of engaging in what is nowadays considered proselytism. Love is free: it is not practised as a way of achieving other ends. (Deus Caritas Est 31)

He relates this to the Directory for Pastoral Ministry of Bishops, 2004

Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework: Distinctive Qualities

Eucharistic Community (Sacramentum Caritatis,84 – 90)

The Eucharist drives our understanding

And drives our way out into mission



Ecclesiology,

Anthropology

Eucharistic Comm

unity,

Formation

Presence, ResponseKenosis,



Spirit


Immanent Trinity

Economic Trinity

Action Modes 2Building Capability




Ecclesiology,

Anthropology

Eucharistic Comm

unity,

Formation

Involvement in EP must be understood theologically for the Church, for Integrity, and for Public Safety (so we don’t do this for the WRONG reasons.)

(Analagous to Child Protection – must be understood and lived theologically)




Spirit


Immanent Trinity

Economic Trinity





Ecclesiology,

Anthropology

Eucharistic Comm

unity,

Formation

Involvement in EP must be understood theologically for the Church, for Integrity, and for Public Safety (so we don’t do this for the WRONG reasons.)

(Analagous to Child Protection – must be understood and lived theologically)



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Spirit


Immanent Trinity

Economic Trinity


Action Modes 3Inclusion, Community,

Ongoing Care and Self Care


Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework: Grounded in Life of Prayer

Proper Foundation needed for doing this Sits well with psychology on Christian Ministry “It is time to reaffirm the importance of prayer in

the face of activism and the growing secularism of many Christians engaged in Charitable work.Clearly, the Christian who prays does not claim to be able to change God’s plans or correct what he has foreseen. Rather, he seeks an encounter with the Father of Jesus Christ, asking God to be present with the consolation of the Spirit to him and his work.” (DCE,37)

Here Benedict puts both Charity and the evils weConfront in Trinitarian context

Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework: Back to Sanctification and Pastoral Care

Fragilita E SaluteCelebration of the SacramentsHearing the WordThe Testimony of Charity

Pastoral CareMeeting Needs physical, emotional,spiritualOngoing SupportContext of Hope

Some recent theological trends: the church as strong community

1. Vogt (Theological Studies,2007) Solidarity and Hospitality in the Church’s social mission

2. Merkle (From the Heart of the Church) Church unable to carry out its mission without first becoming a strong community

3. Interplay of Equality, Respect, Dignity4. Ide – distinctiveness of agape in DCE (nouvelle revue

theologique, 2006)5. Borras – Un Caractere diaconal? (nouvelle revue

theologique, 2007)6. Die Bedeutung der Pastoralkonstitution Gaudium et

Spes fur die Pastoral heute (Bulletin ET, 2005)

Question: does this mean that the interplay of 1 and the practice of 3 are in some way constitutive of the Church’s role in Response to an MI

Some recent theological trends: Social Doctrine in recent Spanish Theology

Ildefonso Camacho 1991 – doctrina social de la Iglesia A Historical Approach A constant focus on human need Vatican II – new focus on modern human life Church should be present in all need

Eugenio Alburquerque (2006) Moral social cristiana Discipleship of Liberation and Justice Charity, Justice, Truth, Peace, Personhood

Francisco Alarcos (2005) Bioetica global, Justicia y Teologia Moral Globalisation brings risk and challenges Re-emphasis of the Church’s teaching and presence in the

midst of globalisation is vital Solidarity Inter and multi-cultural challenges

Some recent theological trends: the Church in public Life

The rise of Public Theology The re-affirmation of Theology’s role in a world of

Social Sciences and Specialiisation (Theological Studies 2005, Concilium 2006/2)

Doing God – A Future for Faith in the Public Square (Theos)

Duncan Forrester – Christian Justice and Public Policy (1999)

Rowan Williams in Brierley (2006) Public Life and the Place of the Church (reflections to honour the Bishop of Oxford)

Some recent theological trends: Summary

A move towards seeing global, not just local issues

A move towards re-asserting links social and individual responsibilities and duties, not just rights

A move to re-assert the Church has a duty and a right to engage in the public square

Some key foundations: virtues as common language

In a world challenged by terrorism and changing climate, these virtues are a language for faiths and civil authorities to collaborate

Taking this forward: Proposition 4

The Church as Strong Community needs some clear structures to enact its role in EP It also needs clear formation, regulation and

systems which work These things are the living out of Charity

as called for in Deus Caritas Est and discussed in recent theology

They sit well with the cycle of emergency planning: Plan, Train, Exercise, Collaborate

Conclusion

We have examined the theological rationale for getting engaged

There is a natural fit, from first principles, between a distinctive Catholic understanding of Social Justice and the Common Good, and Emergency Planning

Witness, Presence and Response: Over to you!

Contact Details

Jim McManusAssistant Director Health ImprovementBarking & Dagenham PCTClock HouseEast StreetBarking IG11 [email protected] Tel 0208 532 6359Fax 0208 532 6354

jim mcmanus, cpsychol, mfph, meps asst director public health barking & dagenham pct

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