RCSC is a program under the office of the Academic Dean. It seeks to provide a venue for engaging faith-based and secular social movements in a process of dialogue through research and documentation, conferences, and actual socio-pastoral engagement.
Vision
- To serve as a theological and pastoral resource pool for social movements, grassroots communities and faith-based organizations engaged in various forms of socially transformative praxis;
- To facilitate a process of continuing conversation and mutual enrichment between St. Vincent School of Theology and socially engaged agents of change working in the margins of the Philippine church and society
Vincentian Popular Mission
The Vincentian Popular Mission is a midyear activity where students are encouraged to participate and apply their learning and Vincentian formation in the margins. Conducted by Vincentian mission teams in mission stations nationwide, a subsequent reflection on the experience enables the students to assess and evolve a program for grassroots communities in their own context.
Socio-Pastoral Engagement
This program complements the ongoing campus-based formation programs of SVST. Its assistance to BECs is pursued only in situations where parishes are unable to send their pastoral agents, BEC organizers, and lay leaders to the campus-based formation programs of SVST. As of now, the project has been assisting various communities in the Diocese of Novaliches by laying all the necessary groundwork for popularizing the Catholic Social Teaching through various forms of educational and training materials.
Catholic Social Teaching for the Grassroots
The goal is to popularize the Catholic Social Teaching and bring it to bear on the faith-life experience of grassroots communities and social movements such as Basic Ecclesial Communities (BEC), faith-based organizations, development institutions and programs, and other agencies similarly engaged in various forms of the social apostolate.
With the Margins
In “doing Philosophy and Theology from the margin”, SVST partnered with several organizations and marginalized groups to provide pastoral formation and have healthy discussions on their living situations.
Everything is Political.
SVST stands as a community that values awareness, responsibility, and active citizenship. Being politically aware means understanding the issues that shape society and recognizing the importance of participating in meaningful discussions. It encourages its members to exercise their right to speak up in respectful and appropriate venues, fostering dialogue that is thoughtful, constructive, and grounded in a commitment to the common good.
Partnership with the Integrated Community Extension Services (ICES) of Adamson University
The ICES Department, together with SVST, spearheads the community development for the indigenous people in Real, Quezon.
Carlos Abesamis Lecture (CAL)
The RCSC is engaged in research projects under the auspices of the Carlos Abesamis Lecture (CAL). The CAL which is an integral part of the RCSC, and supported by modest endowments by the family of the late Fr. Carlos Abesamis, SJ.
The CAL aims to produce interdisciplinary theological researches which are first presented in SVST in a series of lectures.