Sunday, February 23, 2014
Matthew 20, 17-19 + CSDC and CV
(CV 30c) Charity is not an added extra, like
an appendix to work already concluded in each of the various disciplines: it
engages them in dialogue from the very beginning. The demands of love do not
contradict those of reason. Human knowledge is insufficient and the conclusions
of science cannot indicate by themselves the path towards integral human
development. There is always a need to push further ahead: this is what is
required by charity in truth [76]. Going beyond,
however, never means prescinding from the conclusions of reason, nor contradicting
its results. Intelligence and love are not in separate compartments: love is
rich in intelligence and intelligence is full of love.
Notes: [76] Cf. Benedict XVI, Encyclical Letter Deus Caritas Est, 28: loc. cit., 238-240.
CSDC 95b. Pacem
in Terris dwells on the public authority of the world community, called to
“tackle and solve problems of an economic, social, political or cultural
character which are posed by the universal common good”[170]. On the tenth
anniversary of Pacem in Terris,
Cardinal Maurice Roy, the President of the Pontifical Commission for Justice
and Peace, sent Pope Paul VI a letter together with a document with a series of
reflections on the different possibilities afforded by the teaching contained
in Pope John XXIII's Encyclical for shedding light on the new problems
connected with the promotion of peace[171].
Notes: [170] Cf. John XXIII, Encyclical
Letter Pacem in Terris: AAS 55 (1963), 294. [171] Cf. Cardinal
Maurice Roy, Letter to Paul VI and
Document on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Pacem in Terris, L'Osservatore Romano, English
edition, 19 April 1973, pp. 1-8.
[17] As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the
twelve (disciples) aside by themselves, and said to them on the way, [18]
"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed
over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death,
[19] and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified,
and he will be raised on the third day."
CSDC 431. The Lord Jesus is the prototype and foundation
of the new humanity. In him,
the true “likeness of God” (2 Cor 4:4), man — who is created in the
image of God — finds his fulfilment. In the definitive witness of love that God
has made manifest in the cross of Christ, all the barriers of enmity have
already been torn down (cf. Eph 2:12-18), and for those who live a new
life in Christ, racial and cultural differences are no longer causes of
division (cf. Rom 10:12; Gal 3:26-28; Col 3:11). Thanks
to the Spirit, the Church is aware of the divine plan of unity that involves
the entire human race (cf. Acts 17:26), a plan destined to reunite
in the mystery of salvation wrought under the saving Lordship of Christ (cf.
Eph 1:8-10) all of created reality, which is fragmented and scattered. From
the day of Pentecost, when the Resurrection is announced to diverse peoples,
each of whom understand it in their own language (cf. Acts 2:6), the
Church fulfils her mission of restoring and bearing witness to the unity lost
at Babel. Due to this ecclesial ministry, the human family is called to
rediscover its unity and recognize the richness of its differences, in order to
attain “full unity in Christ”.[873]
Notes: [873] Cf.
Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium,
1: AAS 57 (1965), 5.
[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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