Poverty, Justice and

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• Poverty, Justice and
• Catholic Social Teaching

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• The Churchs social teaching offers
• Principles for reflection
• Criteria for judgement
• Guidelines for action

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• The dignity of the person
• Solidarity
• Subsidiarity
• Option for the poor
• Human rights
• The common good

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• Human work proceeds directly from persons created
  in the image of God, and called to extend the
  work of creation with and for one another
  (2427)
• Everyone should be able to draw from work the
  means of providing for themselves and their
  families and of serving the human community
  (2428)

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• God blesses those who come to the aid of the
  poor, and rebukes those who turn away from them.
  It is by what they have done fro the poor that
  Jesus Christ will recognise his own (2443)
• Love for the poor is incompatible with love of
  riches or their immoderate use not to enable
  the poor to share in the good that we have is to
  steal from them. (2446 St John Chrysostom)

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• The works of mercy
• Feed the hungry, replenish the thirsty
• Shelter the homeless, clothe the naked
• Comfort the sick
• Visit those in prison
• Bury the dead

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• The decisive point of the social question is that
  goods created by God for everyone should in fact
  reach everyone in accordance with justice and
  with the help of charity.