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.
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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.
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.
This program complements the on-going 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.
Vincentian popular mission includes an actual participation of students in a popular mission conducted by Vincentian mission teams and a subsequent reflection on its programs and processes. This course intends to enable the students to assess and evolve a program for grassroots communities in his/her own context.
Doing Public Theology is a collection of social commentaries on different socio-political issues that affect our people from an interdisciplinary theological perspective. It is the official blog of St. Vincent School of Theology.
