Expert: George A. Card,sfo, M.I - 12/6/2004

Question
please help or give some advice on ways  the Catholic social teachings of Vatican II contradict the values of our current society?  

Answer
                    Peace

Dear Lachoine--
  First I will share some quotes from Vatican II, then O will share some links that be of some use.

There is a growing awareness of the sublime dignity of human persons, who stand above all things and whose rights and duties are universal and inviolable. They ought, therefore, to have ready access to all that is necessary for living a genuinely human life: for example, food, clothing, housing, the right freely to choose their state of life and set up a family, the right to education, work, to their good name, to respect, to proper knowledge, the right to act according to the dictates of conscience and to safeguard their privacy, and rightful freedom, including freedom of religion.

Vatican II (1963-1965) The Church in the Modern World, #26



The varieties of crime are numerous: all offenses against life itself, such as murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia and willful suicide; all violations of the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, physical and mental torture, undue psychological pressures; all offenses against human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children, degrading working conditions where people are treated as mere tools for profit rather than free and responsible persons: all these and the like are criminal: they poison civilization; and they debase the perpetrators more than the victims and militate against the honor of the creator.

Vatican II (1963-1965)The Church in the Modern World, #27


For when people work, they not only alter things and society, they develop themselves as well. They learn much, they cultivate their resources, they go outside of themselves and beyond themselves. Rightly understood, this kind of growth is of greater value than any external riches which can be garnered. People are more precious for what they are than for what they have. Similarly, all that people do to obtain greater justice, wider brotherhood, a more humane ordering of social relationships has greater worth than technical advances. For these advances can supply the material for human progress, but of themselves alone they can never actually bring it about.

Vatican II (1963-1965) The Church in the Modern World, #35


God destined the earth and all it contains for all people and nations so that all created things would be shared fairly by all humankind under the guidance of justice tempered by charity.

Vatican II (1963-1965) The Church in the Modern World, #69



Now for some links:

major social doctrine documents and a great quote index on social doctrines:

http://www.osjspm.org/

documents on various topics
http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/teach/


Please write again if you have a more specific questions on what you read or something else comes to mind or heart.

           your servant but His first
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