Mark 2, 15-17 +
CSDC and CV
CV 66b. Consumers should be continually educated regarding their daily role, which can be exercised
with respect for moral principles without diminishing the intrinsic economic
rationality of the act of purchasing. In the retail industry, particularly at
times like the present when purchasing power has diminished and people must
live more frugally, it is necessary to explore other paths: for example, forms
of cooperative purchasing like the consumer cooperatives that have been in
operation since the nineteenth century, partly through the initiative of
Catholics.
Church's
social doctrine: an
integral and solidary humanism
CSDC 1a. The Church moves further into the Third
Millennium of the Christian era as a pilgrim people, guided by Christ, the
“great Shepherd” (Heb 13:20). He is the “Holy Door” (cf. Jn 10:9) through which
we passed during the Great Jubilee of the year 2000. Jesus Christ is the
Way, the Truth and the Life (cf. Jn 14:6): contemplating the Lord's face, we
confirm our faith and our hope in him, the one Saviour and goal of history.
(Mk 2, 15-17)
[15] While he was
at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners sat with Jesus and his
disciples; for there were many who followed him. [16] Some scribes who were
Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors and said to
his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
[17] Jesus heard this and said to them (that), "Those who are well do not
need a physician, but the sick do. I did not come to call the righteous but
sinners."
CSDC 206. Love presupposes and transcends justice,
which “must find its fulfilment in charity”[452]. If justice is “in itself
suitable for ‘arbitration' between people concerning the reciprocal
distribution of objective goods in an equitable manner, love and only love
(including that kindly love that we call ‘mercy') is capable of restoring man
to himself”[453]. Human relationships cannot be governed solely by the
measure of justice: “The experience of the past and of our own time
demonstrates that justice alone is not enough, that it can even lead to the
negation and destruction of itself ... It has been precisely historical
experience that, among other things, has led to the formulation of the saying:
summum ius, summa iniuria”[454]. In fact, “in every sphere of interpersonal
relationships justice must, so to speak, be ‘corrected' to a
considerable extent by that love which, as St. Paul proclaims, ‘is patient
and kind' or, in other words, possesses the characteristics of that merciful
love which is so much of the essence of the Gospel and Christianity”[455].
Notes: [452] John Paul II, Message for
the 2004 World Day of Peace, 10: AAS 96 (2004), 120. [453] John Paul II,
Encyclical Letter Dives in Misericordia, 14: AAS 72 (1980), 1223.
[454] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Dives in Misericordia, 12: AAS
72 (1980), 1216. [455] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Dives in Misericordia,
14: AAS 72 (1980), 1224; cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church,
2212.
[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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