Monday, September 8, 2014
Lk 9, 11-17 + CSDC and CV
Luke 9, 11-17 +
CSDC and CV
CV 34c. As I said
in my Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi,
history is thereby deprived of Christian hope [86], deprived of a
powerful social resource at the service of integral human development, sought
in freedom and in justice. Hope encourages reason and gives it the strength to
direct the will [87]. It is already present in faith,
indeed it is called forth by faith. Charity in truth feeds on hope and, at the
same time, manifests it. As the absolutely gratuitous gift of God, hope bursts
into our lives as something not due to us, something that transcends every law
of justice.
Notes: [86] Cf. no. 17: AAS 99 (2007), 1000. [87] Cf. ibid., 23: loc. cit., 1004-1005.
CSDC 77. Above
all, the contribution of philosophy is essential. This contribution has already
been seen in the appeal to human nature as a source and to reason as the
cognitive path of faith itself. By means of reason, the Church's social
doctrine espouses philosophy in its own internal logic, in other words, in the
argumentation that is proper to it. Affirming that the Church's social
doctrine is part of theology rather than philosophy does not imply a disowning
or underestimation of the role or contribution of philosophy. In fact, philosophy
is a suitable and indispensable instrument for arriving at a correct
understanding of the basic concepts of the Church's social doctrine,
concepts such as the person, society, freedom, conscience, ethics, law,
justice, the common good, solidarity, subsidiarity, the State. This
understanding is such that it inspires harmonious living in society. It is
philosophy once more that shows the reasonableness and acceptability of shining
the light of the Gospel on society, and that inspires in every mind and conscience
openness and assent to the truth.
11 The crowds, meanwhile, learned of this and followed
him. He received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and he healed
those who needed to be cured. 12 As the day was drawing to a close, the Twelve
approached him and said, "Dismiss the crowd so that they can go to the
surrounding villages and farms and find lodging and provisions; for we are in a
deserted place here." 13 He said to them, "Give them some food
yourselves." They replied, "Five loaves and two fish are all we have,
unless we ourselves go and buy food for all these people." 14 Now the men
there numbered about five thousand. Then he said to his disciples, "Have
them sit down in groups of (about) fifty." 15 They did so and made them
all sit down. 16 Then taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up
to heaven, he said the blessing over them, broke them, and gave them to the
disciples to set before the crowd. 17 They all ate and were satisfied. And when
the leftover fragments were picked up, they filled twelve wicker baskets.
CSDC 482. The environmental
crisis and poverty are connected by a complex and dramatic set of causes that
can be resolved by the principle of the universal destination of goods, which
offers a fundamental moral and cultural orientation. The present environmental
crisis affects those who are poorest in a particular way, whether they live in
those lands subject to erosion and desertification, are involved in armed
conflicts or subject to forced immigration, or because they do not have the
economic and technological means to protect themselves from other calamities.
Countless numbers of these poor people live in polluted suburbs of large
cities, in make-shift residences or in huge complexes of crumbling and unsafe
houses (slums, bidonvilles, barrios, favelas). In cases where it is necessary
to relocate them, in order not to heap suffering upon suffering, adequate
information needs to be given beforehand, with choices of decent housing
offered, and the people directly involved must be part of the process. It is moreover necessary to keep in mind the situation
of those countries that are penalized by unfair international trade regulations
and countries with a scarcity of capital goods, often aggravated by the burden
of the foreign debt. In such cases hunger and poverty make it virtually
impossible to avoid an intense and excessive exploitation of the environment.
[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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