The answer is solidarity and subsidiarity, those two lynchpins of Catholic Social Thought.
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Catholic and Gay
Throughout those millennia the Christian response has remained the same.
What Can I do About Homosexuality?
We must be aware that “[a]s we proclaim the truth in love, it is not possible for us to avoid all criticism; nor is it possible to please everyone.”
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There is a widespread understanding among business leaders and economic think-tanks that business will need to be radically different.
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Vatican II approach: “To see (to study the facts); To judge (to apply moral, theological, and spiritual perspective); And to act (to take those tangible steps to resolve the issue at hand).”
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Issues of life had been somewhat quarantined from Catholic social teaching and were considered a separate branch of moral theology. The implications for their integration into CST in Centesimus Annus were potentially huge but were not entirely sorted.
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While Pope Benedict XVI identifies in Caritas in Veritate that implementing Catholic social teaching is a way for the lay faithful to "give flesh to their faith" he makes an even stronger case: implementing CST is a binding ‘requirement’ of lay spirituality – of living out our lives in the world.
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Pope Benedict XVI identifies that the Church "above all…works…to protect mankind from self-destruction."
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Continuing our summary of Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI teaches us that without God “development is either denied or entrusted exclusively to man…and ends up promoting a dehumanized form of development.” (CIV, 11)
