Thursday, December 25, 2014
John 3, 7-15 + CSDC and CV
John 3, 7-15 +
CSDC and CV
CV 68b By analogy, the development of peoples goes awry if humanity thinks it can
re-create itself through the “wonders” of technology, just as economic
development is exposed as a destructive sham if it relies on the “wonders” of
finance in order to sustain unnatural and consumerist growth. In the face of
such Promethean presumption, we must fortify our love for a freedom that is not
merely arbitrary, but is rendered truly human by acknowledgment of the good
that underlies it. To this end, man needs to look inside himself in order to
recognize the fundamental norms of the natural moral law which God has written
on our hearts.
CSDC 350. The
market takes on a significant social function in contemporary society,
therefore it is important to identify its most positive potentials and to
create the conditions that allow them to be put concretely into effect. Market
operators must be effectively free to compare, evaluate and choose from among
various options. Freedom in the economic sector, however, must be regulated by
appropriate legal norms so that it will be placed at the service of integral
human freedom. “Economic freedom is only one element of human freedom. When it
becomes autonomous, when man is seen more as a producer or consumer of goods
than as a subject who produces and consumes in order to live, then economic
freedom loses its necessary relationship to the human person and ends up by
alienating and oppressing him”.[732]
Notes: [732] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 39: AAS
83 (1991), 843.
[7] Do not be amazed that I told you, 'You must be born
from above.' [8] The wind 4 blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound it
makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with
everyone who is born of the Spirit." [9] Nicodemus answered and said to
him, "How can this happen?" [10] Jesus answered and said to him,
"You are the teacher of Israel and you do not understand this? [11] Amen,
amen, I say to you, we speak of what we know and we testify to what we have
seen, but you people do not accept our testimony. [12] If I tell you about
earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about
heavenly things? [13] No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come
down from heaven, the Son of Man. [14] And just as Moses lifted up the serpent
in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, [15] so that everyone who
believes in him may have eternal life."
CSDC 57. The good
things — such as human dignity, brotherhood and freedom, all the good fruits of
nature and of human enterprise — that in the Lord's Spirit and according to his
command have spread throughout the earth, having been purified of every stain,
illuminated and transfigured, belong to the Kingdom of truth and life, of
holiness and grace, of justice, of love and of peace that Christ will present
to the Father, and it is there that we shall once again find them. The
words of Christ in their solemn truth will then resound for all people: “Come,
O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty
and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and
you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to
me ... as you did it to one of the least of my brethren, you did it to me” (Mt
25:34-36,40).
[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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