Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Lk 16, 18 + CSDC and CV
Luke 16, 18 + CSDC and CV
CV 48a.
Today the subject of development is also closely related to the duties arising
from our relationship to the natural environment. The environment is
God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards
the poor, towards future generations and towards humanity as a whole. When
nature, including the human being, is viewed as the result of mere chance or
evolutionary determinism, our sense of responsibility wanes. In nature, the
believer recognizes the wonderful result of God's creative activity, which we
may use responsibly to satisfy our legitimate needs, material or otherwise,
while respecting the intrinsic balance of creation. If this vision is lost, we
end up either considering nature an untouchable taboo or, on the contrary, abusing
it. Neither attitude is consonant with the Christian vision of nature as the
fruit of God's creation. Nature expresses a design of love and truth. It
is prior to us, and it has been given to us by God as the setting for our life.
CSDC 246. The social subjectivity of the family, both as
a single unit and associated in a group, is expressed as well in the
demonstrations of solidarity and sharing not only among families themselves but
also in the various forms of participation in social and political life. This
is what happens when the reality of the family is founded on love: being born
in love and growing in love, solidarity belongs to the family as a constitutive
and structural element. This is a solidarity that can take on the features of
service and attention to those who live in poverty and need, to orphans, the
handicapped, the sick, the elderly, to those who are in mourning, to those with
doubts, to those who live in loneliness or who have been abandoned. It is a
solidarity that opens itself to acceptance, to guardianship, to adoption; it is
able to bring every situation of distress to the attention of institutions so
that, according to their specific competence, they can intervene.
18 "Everyone who divorces his wife
and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced
from her husband commits adultery.
CSDC 225. The nature of conjugal love requires the
stability of the married relationship and its indissolubility. The absence of
these characteristics compromises the relationship of exclusive and total love
that is proper to the marriage bond, bringing great pain to the children and
damaging repercussions also on the fabric of society. The stability and
indissolubility of the marriage union must not be entrusted solely to the
intention and effort of the individual persons involved. The responsibility for
protecting and promoting the family as a fundamental natural institution,
precisely in consideration of its vital and essential aspects, falls to the
whole of society. The need to confer an institutional character on marriage,
basing this on a public act that is socially and legally recognized, arises
from the basic requirements of social nature. The introduction of divorce into
civil legislation has fuelled a relativistic vision of the marriage bond and is
broadly manifested as it becomes “truly a plague on society”[497]. Couples who
preserve and develop the value of indissolubility “in a humble and courageous
manner ... perform the role committed to them of being in the world a ‘sign' —
a small and precious sign, sometimes also subjected to temptation, but always
renewed — of the unfailing fidelity with which God and Jesus Christ love each
and every human being”[498].
Notes: [497] Catechism of the
Catholic Church, 2385; cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church,
1650-1651, 2384. [498] John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris
Consortio, 20: AAS 74 (1982), 104.
[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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