Thursday, January 23, 2014
Matthew 14, 1-13 + CSDC and CV
(CV 21d) The technical forces in play, the global interrelations, the damaging
effects on the real economy of badly managed and largely speculative financial
dealing, large-scale migration of peoples, often provoked by some particular
circumstance and then given insufficient attention, the unregulated
exploitation of the earth's resources: all this leads us today to reflect on
the measures that would be necessary to provide a solution to problems that are
not only new in comparison to those addressed by Pope Paul VI, but also, and
above all, of decisive impact upon the present and future good of humanity. The
different aspects of the crisis, its solutions, and any new development that
the future may bring, are increasingly interconnected, they imply one another,
they require new efforts of holistic understanding and a new humanistic
synthesis.
CSDC 83. This social doctrine implies as well
responsibilities regarding the building, organization and functioning of
society, that is to say, political, economic and administrative obligations —
obligations of a secular nature — which belong to the lay faithful, not to
priests or religious[128]. These responsibilities belong to the laity in a
distinctive manner, by reason of the secular condition of their state of life,
and of the secular nature of their vocation[129]. By fulfilling these
responsibilities, the lay faithful put the Church's social teaching into action
and thus fulfil the Church's secular mission[130].
Notes:
[128] Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church,
2442. [129] Cf. John Paul II, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation
Christifideles Laici, 15: AAS 81 (1989), 413; Second Vatican
Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, 31: AAS 57
(1965), 37. [130] Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution
Gaudium et Spes, 43: AAS 58 (1966), 1061-1064; Paul VI, Encyclical
Letter Populorum Progressio, 81: AAS 59 (1967), 296-297.
[1] At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the
reputation of Jesus [2] and said to his servants, "This man is John the
Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why mighty powers are at
work in him." [3] Now Herod had arrested John, bound (him), and put him in
prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, [4] for John had
said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her." [5] Although he
wanted to kill him, he feared the people, for they regarded him as a prophet.
[6] But at a birthday celebration for Herod, the daughter of Herodias performed
a dance before the guests and delighted Herod [7] so much that he swore to give
her whatever she might ask for. [8] Prompted by her mother, she said,
"Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist." [9] The
king was distressed, but because of his oaths and the guests who were present,
he ordered that it be given, [10] and he had John beheaded in the prison. [11]
His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl, who took it to her
mother. [12] His disciples came and took away the corpse and buried him; and
they went and told Jesus. [13] When Jesus heard of it, he withdrew in a boat to
a deserted place by himself. The crowds heard of this and followed him on foot
from their towns.
CSDC 395. The subject of political authority is the
people considered in its entirety as those who have sovereignty. In various
forms, this people transfers the exercise of sovereignty to those whom it
freely elects as its representatives, but it preserves the prerogative to
assert this sovereignty in evaluating the work of those charged with governing
and also in replacing them when they do not fulfil their functions
satisfactorily. Although this right is operative in every State and in every
kind of political regime, a democratic form of government, due to its
procedures for verification, allows and guarantees its fullest
application.[803] The mere consent of the people is not, however, sufficient
for considering “just” the ways in which political authority is exercised.
Notes: [803] Cf. John Paul II,
Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 46: AAS 83 (1991), 850- 851;
John XXIII, Encyclical Letter Pacem in Terris: AAS 55 (1963),
271.
[Initials and
Abbreviations.- CSDC: Pontifical Council for Justice And Peace, Compendium of the Social
Doctrine of the Church; - SDC: Social Doctrine of the Church; - CV: Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in truth)]
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