509. What is the content of the social doctrine of the Church? (part 2 continuation)
(Comp 509 repetition) The social doctrine of the Church is an organic development of the truth
of the Gospel about the dignity of the human person and his social dimension
offering principles for reflection, criteria for judgment, and norms and
guidelines for action.
“In brief”
(CCC 2458) The Church makes a judgment about economic and
social matters when the fundamental rights of the person or the salvation of
souls requires it. She is concerned with the temporal common good of men
because they are ordered to the sovereign Good, their ultimate end.
To deepen and
explain
(CCC 2421) The social doctrine of the Church developed in
the nineteenth century when the Gospel encountered modern industrial society
with its new structures for the production of consumer goods, its new concept
of society, the state and authority, and its new forms of labor and ownership.
The development of the doctrine of the Church on economic and social matters
attests the permanent value of the Church's teaching at the same time as it
attests the true meaning of her Tradition, always living and active (Cf. CA 3).
(CCC 2422) The Church's social teaching comprises a body of doctrine, which is
articulated as the Church interprets events in the course of history, with the
assistance of the Holy Spirit, in the light of the whole of what has been revealed
by Jesus Christ (Cf. SRS 1; 41). This teaching can be more easily accepted by
men of good will, the more the faithful let themselves be guided by it.
Reflection
(CCC 2423) The Church's social teaching proposes principles
for reflection; it provides criteria for judgment; it gives guidelines for
action: Any system in which social relationships are determined entirely by
economic factors is contrary to the nature of the human person and his acts
(Cf. CA 24). [END]
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