Friday, December 26, 2014
John 3, 16-21 + CSDC and CV
John 3, 16-21 +
CSDC and CV
CV 69a The challenge of development today is closely linked to technological
progress, with its astounding applications in the field of biology.
Technology — it is worth emphasizing — is a profoundly human reality, linked to
the autonomy and freedom of man. In technology we express and confirm the
hegemony of the spirit over matter. “The human spirit, ‘increasingly free of its
bondage to creatures, can be more easily drawn to the worship and contemplation
of the Creator'” [150].
Notes: [150] Paul VI, Encyclical
Letter Populorum Progressio, 41: loc. cit., 277-278; cf.
Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the
Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 57.
CSDC 352. The
fundamental task of the State in economic matters is that of determining an
appropriate juridical framework for regulating economic affairs, in order
to safeguard “the prerequisites of a free economy, which presumes a certain
equality between the parties, such that one party would not be so powerful as
practically to reduce the other to subservience”.[735] Economic activity, above
all in a free market context, cannot be conducted in an institutional,
juridical or political vacuum. “On the contrary, it presupposes sure guarantees
of individual freedom and private property, as well as a stable currency and
efficient public services”.[736] To fulfil this task, the State must adopt
suitable legislation but at the same time it must direct economic and social
policies in such a way that it does not become abusively involved in the
various market activities, the carrying out of which is and must remain free of
authoritarian — or worse, totalitarian — superstructures and constraints.
Notes: [735] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 15: AAS
83 (1991), 811. [736] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus,
48: AAS 83 (1991), 852-853; cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church,
2431.
[16] For God so loved the world that he gave his only
Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have
eternal life. [17] For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the
world, but that the world might be saved through him. [18] Whoever believes in
him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been
condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. [19]
And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people
preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. [20] For everyone
who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so
that his works might not be exposed. [21] But whoever lives the truth comes to
the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.
CSDC 55. The transformation of the world is a
fundamental requirement of our time also. To this need the Church's social
Magisterium intends to offer the responses called for by the signs of the
times, pointing above all to the mutual love between human beings, in the sight
of God, as the most powerful instrument of change, on the personal and social
levels. Mutual love, in fact, sharing in the infinite love of God, is
humanity's authentic purpose, both historical and transcendent. Therefore,
“earthly progress must be carefully distinguished from the growth of Christ's
kingdom. Nevertheless, to the extent that the former can contribute to the
better ordering of human society, it is of vital concern to the kingdom of
God”[67].
Notes: [67]
Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes,
39: AAS 58 (1966), 1057.
[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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