Friday, November 14, 2014
Lk 21, 5-9 + CSDC and CV
Luke 21, 5-9 +
CSDC and CV
CV 56a The Christian religion and other religions can offer
their contribution to development only if God has a place in the public
realm, specifically in regard to its cultural, social, economic, and
particularly its political dimensions. The Church's social doctrine came into
being in order to claim “citizenship status” for the Christian religion [135]. Denying the right to profess one's religion in
public and the right to bring the truths of faith to bear upon public life has
negative consequences for true development. The exclusion of religion from the
public square — and, at the other extreme, religious fundamentalism — hinders
an encounter between persons and their collaboration for the progress of
humanity.
Notes: [135] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 5: loc. cit., 798-800; Benedict XVI, Address to the
Participants in the Fourth National Congress of the Church in Italy, Verona, 19 October 2006.
CDS 287. Work is a fundamental right and a good for
mankind,[619] a useful good, worthy of man because it is an appropriate way for
him to give expression to and enhance his human dignity. The Church teaches the value of work not only
because it is always something that belongs to the person but also because of
its nature as something necessary.[620] Work is needed to form and maintain a
family,[621] to have a right to property,[622] to contribute to the common good
of the human family.[623] In considering the moral implications that the
question of work has for social life, the Church cannot fail to indicate
unemployment as a “real social disaster”,[624] above all with regard to the
younger generations.
Notes: [619] Cf. Second Vatican
Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 26: AAS
58 (1966), 1046-1047; John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Laborem Exercens,
9, 18: AAS 73 (1981), 598-600, 622-625; John Paul II, Address to the
Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (25 April 1997), 3: L'Osservatore
Romano, English edition, 14 May 1997, p. 5; John Paul II, Message for the
1999 World Day of Peace, 8: AAS 91 (1999), 382-383. [620] Cf. Leo XIII,
Encyclical Letter Rerum Novarum: Acta Leonis XIII, 11 (1892),
128.[621] Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Laborem Exercens, 10: AAS
73 (1981), 600-602. [622] Cf. Leo XIII, Encyclical Letter Rerum Novarum:
Acta Leonis XIII, 11 (1892), 103; John Paul II, Encyclical Letter
Laborem Exercens, 14: AAS 73 (1981), 612-616; John Paul II,
Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 31: AAS 83 (1991), 831-832. [623]
Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Laborem Exercens, 16: AAS 73
(1981), 618-620. [624] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Laborem Exercens,
18: AAS 73 (1981), 623.
[5] While some people were speaking about how the temple
was adorned with costly stones and votive offerings, he said, [6] "All
that you see here - the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon
another stone that will not be thrown down." [7] Then they asked him,
"Teacher, when will this happen? And what sign will there be when all
these things are about to happen?" [8] He answered, "See that you not
be deceived, for many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and 'The time
has come.' Do not follow them! [9] When you hear of wars and insurrections, do
not be terrified; for such things must happen first, but it will not
immediately be the end."
CDS 60 The Church, sharing in mankind's joys and hopes,
in its anxieties and sadness, stands with every man and woman of every
place and time, to bring them the good news of the Kingdom of God, which in
Jesus Christ has come and continues to be present among them[73]. In the midst
of mankind and in the world she is the sacrament of God's love and, therefore,
of the most splendid hope, which inspires and sustains every authentic
undertaking for and commitment to human liberation and advancement. The Church
is present among mankind as God's tent of meeting, “God's dwelling place among
men” (cf. Rev 21:3), so that man is not alone, lost or frightened in his
task of making the world more human; thus men and women find support in the
redeeming love of Christ. As minister of salvation, the Church is not in the
abstract nor in a merely spiritual dimension, but in the context of the history
and of the world in which man lives[74]. Here mankind is met by God's love and
by the vocation to cooperate in the divine plan.
Notes: [73] Cf.
Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes,
1: AAS 58 (1966), 1025-1026. [74] Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council,
Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 40: AAS 58 (1966),
1057-1059; John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 53-54: AAS
83 (1991), 859-860; John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis,
1: AAS 80 (1988), 513-514.
[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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