“Justice is the primary way of charity”. (Pope Benedict XVI, 60)
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Racism Quotes from the Church
“The Church reproves, as foreign to the mind of Christ, any discrimination.” (Pope St. Paul VI, 5)
Karl Marx and Catholic Social Teaching
Karl Marx’s greatest error was anthropological. He thought that once the economy had been put right, everything would automatically be put right.
All, Right to Private Property
The top 10 Pope Leo XIII quotes on private property, all of which come from his landmark encyclical, Rerum Novarum.
All, Culture, Government and Politics
“Catholic politicians and legislators...must...introduce and support laws inspired by values grounded in human nature.” (Pope Benedict XVI, 231)
All, Climate Change, Human Environment, Integral Ecology
Of the many times Pope St. John Paul II spoke about the role of the state and the political system, here are ten quotes that stand out to us.
All, Culture, Right to Private Property
"The seventh commandment requires…respect for the right to private property". (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2401)
Abortion, All, Human Dignity
"The Lord who made you...who formed you from the womb" (Isaiah 44). The Church interprets Scripture to mean precisely that our lives, fashioned by God from the moment we are "conceived", have dignity.
All, Human Dignity, LGBT
"I always distinguish between what pastoral care is for people who have a different sexual orientation and what gender ideology is. They are two different things." (Pope Francis)
