Poverty is not just material. It is also moral and spiritual. Poverty is an affront to human dignity, and so the Church has always taught a preferential option for the poor.
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The Top Marriage Quotes from the Church
“Marriage…transcends the feelings and momentary needs of the couple…it is not born ‘of loving sentiment, but from the depth of the obligation'” (Pope Francis)
What is Ecology?
When the Church speaks of ecology, she is referencing the relationship between us and our physical environment and our human environment.
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Social justice is what results when “associations or individuals…obtain what is their due, according to their nature and their vocation.”
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Can women be ordained? The Catechism gives the simplest answer (CCC, 1577)“Only a baptized man (vir) validly receives sacred ordination. The Lord Jesus chose men (viri) to form the college of the twelve apostles, and the apostles did the same when they chose collaborators to succeed them in their ministry
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When a firm makes a profit, this means that productive factors have been properly employed and corresponding human needs have been duly satisfied.” (Centesimus Annus, 35)
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Just as “Christian charitable activity must be independent of parties and ideologies” (Pope Benedict XVI) Catholic social teaching is not an endorsement of or for any political teaching.
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We have the opportunity, not simply to reevaluate our economic, political, and social orders, but actually to change them for the better.
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Can women be ordained? This is a difficult topic for us ‘moderns’ because the reason for the answer “no” is, essentially, theological.
