Monday, January 27, 2014
Matthew 15, 10-20 + CSDC and CV
(CV 22c) International aid has often been diverted from its proper ends, through
irresponsible actions both within the chain of donors and within that of the
beneficiaries. Similarly, in the context of immaterial or cultural causes of
development and underdevelopment, we find these same patterns of responsibility
reproduced. On the part of rich countries there is excessive zeal for
protecting knowledge through an unduly rigid assertion of the right to
intellectual property, especially in the field of health care. At the same
time, in some poor countries, cultural models and social norms of behaviour
persist which hinder the process of development.
CSDC 85b. For this reason the Church's social
doctrine does not depend on the different cultures, ideologies or opinions; it
is a constant teaching that “remains identical in its fundamental
inspiration, in its ‘principles of reflection', in its ‘criteria of judgment',
in its basic ‘directives for action', and above all in its vital link with the
Gospel of the Lord”[134]. This is the foundational and permanent nucleus of the
Church's social doctrine, by which it moves through history without being
conditioned by history or running the risk of fading away.
Notes: [134] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 3: AAS
80 (1988), 515.
CSDC 142. The natural law, which is the law of
God, cannot be annulled by human sinfulness[274]. It lays the indispensable
moral foundation for building the human community and for establishing the
civil law that draws its consequences of a concrete and contingent nature from
the principles of the natural law[275]. If the perception of the universality
of the moral law is dimmed, people cannot build a true and lasting communion
with others, because when a correspondence between truth and good is lacking,
“whether culpably or not, our acts damage the communion of persons, to the
detriment of each”[276]. Only freedom rooted in a common nature, in fact, can make
all men responsible and enable them to justify public morality. Those who
proclaim themselves to be the sole measure of realities and of truth cannot
live peacefully in society with their fellow men and cooperate with them[277].
Notes: [274] Cf. Saint
Augustine, Confessions, 2, 4, 9: PL 32, 678: “Furtum certe punit lex
tua, Domine, et lex scripta in cordibus hominum, quam ne ipsa quidem delet
iniquitas”. [275] Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1959. [276] John
Paul II, Encyclical Letter Veritatis Splendor, 51: AAS 85 (1993),
1175. [277] Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Evangelium Vitae, 19-20:
AAS 87 (1995), 421-424.
[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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