{"id":76,"date":"2026-06-10T15:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/?p=76"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:48:00","slug":"lezing-door-prof-em-johan-verstraeten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/lezing-door-prof-em-johan-verstraeten\/","title":{"rendered":"Lezing door prof.em. Johan Verstraeten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-unset-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260609_202450-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39\" srcset=\"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260609_202450-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260609_202450-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260609_202450-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260609_202450-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260609_202450-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In het kader van de lopende&nbsp;<strong>tentoonstelling \u201cCompassion\u201d in de Sint-Jacobskerk<\/strong>, organiseerde Jacobus-House of Compassion een lezing door&nbsp;<strong>Johan Verstraeten<\/strong>, prof. em. Theologische en Comparatieve Ethiek KULeuven en voorzitter van het Netwerk Rechtvaardigheid en Vrede. De titel van de lezing luidt:&nbsp;<em>\u201cWerken van Barmhartigheid en Sociale Rechtvaardigheid: een dynamische interactie door menselijke ontmoeting\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kerk zijn is meer dan geloofsverkondiging en liturgie. Als gemeenschap hebben we een opdracht om een antwoord te geven op menselijke noden. Die opdracht wordt vaak gezien als een zaak van individuele liefdadigheid. Het belang hiervan mag niet onderschat worden omdat het een bron is van menselijke ontmoeting die onverschilligheid doorbreekt en leidt tot effici\u00ebnte hulpacties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maar toch is dit niet voldoende. De zorg voor kwetsbare mensen staat niet los van de&nbsp; maatschappelijke context die armoede, discriminatie en onrecht veroorzaakt of versterkt. Daarom is het van groot belang om kritische vragen te stellen bij de wijze waarop onze samenleving en de wereld georganiseerd worden en om te onderscheiden hoe meer rechtvaardige structuren ontwikkeld kunnen worden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dat is ook de uitdaging waarvoor de sociale leer van de Kerk ons stelt, zoals paus Leo XIV in zijn schitterende encycliek \u201cMagnifica Humanitas\u201d beklemtoont. Het gaat altijd om het welzijn en de waardigheid van allen, wat ons verplicht keuzes te maken. Deze inzet is geen of\/of verhaal, maar een dynamisch proces waarin actie voor rechtvaardige structuren, caritas en menselijke ontmoeting elkaar versterken en waardoor wij \u201ccompagnons\u2019 worden op de weg naar een samenleving waarin iedereen ten volle als mens kan openbloeien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op dinsdag 9 juni 2026 gaf prof.em. Johan Vertraeten een lezing in de Sint-Jacobskerk onder de titel &#8216;Werken van Barmhartigheid en Sociale Rechtvaardigheid. Daarmee tekende hij de krijtlijnen van het &#8216;House of Compassion &#8211; Gent&#8217; uit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lezing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houseofcompassion.gent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}