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for December 25, 2005
“God destined the earth and all it contains for all people and nations so that all created things would be shared fairly by all humankind under the guidance of justice tempered by charity.”
Gaudium et Spes, 69 |
for December 18, 2005
“ If there is among you a poor person, one of your community you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother and/or sister, but you shall open your hand to them, and lend them sufficient for their need .” Deut 15:7-8 |
for December 4, 2005
“The common good therefore involves all members of society, no one is exempt from cooperation, according to each one's possibilities, in attaining it and developing it.”
No. 167 Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching |
for November 27, 2005
“The right of the Church (to proclaim the Gospel in the context of society) is at the same time a duty, because she cannot forsake this responsibility without denying herself and her fidelity to Christ.”
No. 71 Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching |
for November 20, 2005
“The Church's love for the poor is inspired by the Gospel of the Beatitudes, by the poverty of Jesus and by his attention to the poor. This love concerns material poverty and also the numerous forms of cultural and religious poverty.”
No. 184 Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching |
for November 13, 2005
“Since something of the glory of God shines on the face of every person, the dignity of every person before God is the basis of the dignity of one person before another.”
No. 144 Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching |
for November 6, 2005
“With her social teaching the Church seeks to proclaim the Gospel and to make it present in the complex network of social relations. It is not simply a matter of reaching out to men and women in society…but of enriching and permeating society itself with the Gospel.
No. 62 Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching |
for
October 23, 2005
“Christian
love
leads
to
denunciation,
proposals
and
commitment
to
cultural
and
social
projects;
it
prompts
positive
activity
that
inspires
all
who
sincerely
have
the
good
of
humanity
at
heart
to
make
their
contribution.”
No.
6 Compendium
of Catholic Social Teaching |
for October 16, 2005
“How can we remain indifferent to the prospect of an ecological crisis which is making vast areas of our planet uninhabitable and hostile to humanity?” No. 5 Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching |
for
October 2, 2005
“The
whole of the Church's social
doctrine develops from the principle
that affirms the inviolable
dignity of the human person.”
No.
107 Compendium of Catholic
Social Teaching |
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