Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Lk 11, 27-32 + CSDC and CV
Luke 11, 27-32
+ CSDC and CV
CV 40b.
Today's international capital market offers great freedom of action. Yet there
is also increasing awareness of the need for greater social responsibility
on the part of business. Even if the ethical considerations that currently
inform debate on the social responsibility of the corporate world are not all
acceptable from the perspective of the Church's social doctrine, there is
nevertheless a growing conviction that business management cannot concern
itself only with the interests of the proprietors, but must also assume
responsibility for all the other stakeholders who contribute to the life of the
business: the workers, the clients, the suppliers of various elements of
production, the community of reference. In recent years a new cosmopolitan
class of managers has emerged, who are often answerable only to the
shareholders generally consisting of anonymous funds which de facto
determine their remuneration. By contrast, though, many far-sighted managers
today are becoming increasingly aware of the profound links between their
enterprise and the territory or territories in which it operates.
CSDC
191b. In the area of participation, a further
source of concern is found in those countries ruled by totalitarian or
dictatorial regimes, where the fundamental right to participate in public life
is denied at its origin, since it is considered a threat to the State
itself[411]. In some countries where this right is only formally proclaimed
while in reality it cannot be concretely exercised while, in still other
countries the burgeoning bureaucracy de facto denies citizens the possibility
of taking active part in social and political life[412].
Notes: [411] Cf.
John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 44-45: AAS 83
(1991), 848-849. [412] Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei
Socialis, 15: AAS 80 (1988), 528-530; Pius XII, Christmas Radio Message
of 24 December 1952: AAS 45 (1953), 37; Paul VI, Apostolic Letter
Octogesima Adveniens, 47: AAS 63 (1971), 435-437.
27
While he was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to
him, "Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you
nursed." 28 He replied, "Rather, blessed are those who hear the word
of God and observe it." 29 While still more people gathered in the crowd,
he said to them, "This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign,
but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah. 30 Just as Jonah became
a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. 31 At
the judgment the queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation
and she will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear
the wisdom of Solomon, and there is something greater than Solomon here. 32 At
the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it,
because at the preaching of Jonah they repented, and there is something greater
than Jonah here.
CSDC 119. The
consequences of sin perpetuate the structures of sin. These are rooted in
personal sin and, therefore, are always connected to concrete acts of the
individuals who commit them, consolidate them and make it difficult to remove
them. It is thus that they grow stronger, spread
and become sources of other sins, conditioning human conduct[228]. These are
obstacles and conditioning that go well beyond the actions and brief life span
of the individual and interfere also in the process of the development of
peoples, the delay and slow pace of which must be judged in this light[229].
The actions and attitudes opposed to the will of God and the good of neighbour,
as well as the structures arising from such behaviour, appear to fall into two
categories today: “on the one hand, the all-consuming desire for profit, and on
the other, the thirst for power, with the intention of imposing one's will upon
others. In order to characterize better each of these attitudes, one can add
the expression: ‘at any price”'[230].
Notes: [228] Cf. Catechism of the
Catholic Church, 1869. [229] Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo
Rei Socialis, 36: AAS 80 (1988), 561-563. [230] John Paul II,
Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 37: AAS 80 (1988),
563.
[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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