Monday, September 15, 2014
Lk 10, 13-15 + CSDC and CV
Luke 10, 13-15 + CSDC and CV
CV 36c.
The Church's social doctrine holds that authentically human social
relationships of friendship, solidarity and reciprocity can also be conducted
within economic activity, and not only outside it or “after” it. The economic
sphere is neither ethically neutral, nor inherently inhuman and opposed to
society. It is part and parcel of human activity and precisely because it is
human, it must be structured and governed in an ethical manner.
CSDC 148. Persons with disabilities are fully human subjects, with rights and
duties: “in spite of the limitations and sufferings
affecting their bodies and faculties, they point up more clearly the dignity
and greatness of man”[291]. Since persons with disabilities are subjects with
all their rights, they are to be helped to participate in every dimension of
family and social life at every level accessible to them and according to their
possibilities. The rights of persons with disabilities need to be promoted
with effective and appropriate measures: “It would be radically unworthy of
man, and a denial of our common humanity, to admit to the life of the
community, and thus admit to work, only those who are fully functional. To do so
would be to practice a serious form of discrimination, that of the strong and
healthy against the weak and sick”[292]. Great attention must be paid not only
to the physical and psychological work conditions, to a just wage, to the
possibility of promotion and the elimination of obstacles, but also to the
affective and sexual dimensions of persons with disabilities: “They too need to
love and to be loved, they need tenderness, closeness and intimacy”[293],
according to their capacities and with respect for the moral order, which is
the same for the non-handicapped and the handicapped alike.
Notes: [291] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Laborem
Exercens, 22: AAS 73 (1981), 634. [292] John Paul II, Encyclical
Letter Laborem Exercens, 22: AAS 73 (1981), 634. [293] John Paul
II, Message for the International Symposium on the Dignity and Rights of the
Mentally Disabled Person, 5 January 2004, 5: L'Osservatore Romano,
English edition, 21 January 2004, p. 6.
13 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to
you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in
Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and
ashes. 14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than
for you. 15 And as for you, Capernaum, 'Will you be exalted to heaven? You will
go down to the netherworld.'"
CSDC 57. The good
things — such as human dignity, brotherhood and freedom, all the good fruits of
nature and of human enterprise — that in the Lord's Spirit and according to his
command have spread throughout the earth, having been purified of every stain,
illuminated and transfigured, belong to the Kingdom of truth and life, of
holiness and grace, of justice, of love and of peace that Christ will present
to the Father, and it is there that we shall once again find them. The words of Christ in their solemn truth will then resound for
all people: “Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was
thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was
naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and
you came to me ... as you did it to one of the least of my brethren, you did it
to me” (Mt 25:34-36,40).
[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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