Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Matthew 19, 6 + CSDC and CV
(CV 27c) All this needs to be accomplished with the involvement of local communities
in choices and decisions that affect the use of agricultural land. In this
perspective, it could be useful to consider the new possibilities that are
opening up through proper use of traditional as well as innovative farming
techniques, always assuming that these have been judged, after sufficient
testing, to be appropriate, respectful of the environment and attentive to the
needs of the most deprived peoples. At the same time, the question of equitable
agrarian reform in developing countries should not be ignored. The right to
food, like the right to water, has an important place within the pursuit of
other rights, beginning with the fundamental right to life. It is therefore
necessary to cultivate a public conscience that considers food and access to
water as universal rights of all human beings, without distinction or
discrimination [65].
Notes: [65] Cf. Benedict XVI, Message for the
2007 World Food Day: AAS 99
(2007), 933-935.
CSDC 91b. Quadragesimo
Anno confirms the principle that salaries should be proportional not only
to the needs of the worker but also to those of the worker's family. The State,
in its relations with the private sector, should apply the principle of
subsidiarity, a principle that will become a permanent element of the
Church's social doctrine. The Encyclical rejects liberalism, understood as
unlimited competition between economic forces, and reconfirms the value of
private property, recalling its social function.
[6] So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore,
what God has joined together, no human being must separate."
CSDC 209. The
importance and centrality of the family with regard to the person and society
is repeatedly underlined by Sacred Scripture. “It is not good that the man should be alone” (Gen 2:18). From the texts
that narrate the creation of man (cf. Gen 1:26-28, 2:7-24) there emerges how —
in God's plan — the couple constitutes “the first form of communion between
persons”[458]. Eve is created like Adam as the one who, in her otherness,
completes him (cf. Gen 2:18) in order to form with him “one flesh” (Gen 2:24;
cf. Mt 19:5-6) [459]. At the same time, both are involved in the work of
procreation, which makes them co-workers with the Creator: “Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth” (Gen 1:28). The family is presented, in the
Creator's plan, as “the primary place of
‘humanization' for the person and society” and the “cradle of life and
love”[460].
Notes: [458]
Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 12:
AAS 58 (1966), 1034. [459] Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1605. [460] John Paul II,
Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici, 40: AAS
81 (1989), 469.
[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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