Impact of Social Teaching of Catholic Churches among Dalit Christians

Social teaching in a church is a core system of ensuring the social justice and development of the community people of the church jurisdiction. The promotion of social justice is the voice of the privileged people's expression as well as the service of the mission and an apostolic priority.Catholic Social Teaching is the official body of doctrine that guides the Church's response to social, economic, and political issues, emphasizing that faith must be lived out through justice and compassion.In this context this study was carried out in the Chengalpattu Catholic diocese which covers mainly Chengalpattu and Kancheepuram regions. This study adopted the descriptive method to narrate the socio-economic status of the Christians which conducted with 640 samples through structured questionnaire by using multistage samplings method to identify the field regions from the administrative cluster of the Chengalpattu diocese. This study widely covers the impact of the seven themes of the Catholic Social Teaching in the adopted areas. Some of the findings of this study focusing on the equity and equality among the Christians that disseminate through the community social teaching of the churches. The Major findings of this study suggested to make the updates and reinstate the core ethics vested in the original theology. The major limitation of this study is a theme of the future wide study to be undergoing with cross sectional and higher status people and their approach pattern.