The family “exists prior to the State or any other community, and possesses inherent rights which are inalienable”. (Preamble, D., Charter of the Rights of the Family)
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Types of Families and New Definitions
The Synod on Family, called by Pope Francis, reported the “the family, the basic human community, is painfully being weakened”. (Synod Report to Pope Francis, 10)
What is Family?
The family is “a sign and image of the communion of the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2205)
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“Concretely, in economic activity” this means that business women and men “engage in economic activity for the sake of the common good and they experience this commitment as something transcending their self-interest, for the benefit of present and future generations.”
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Simply, but elegantly put: consumerism is a style of life directed towards “having” rather than “being”. It is a “web of false and superficial gratifications.” (Pope St. John Paul II)
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While alienation exists in different forms, “there is no worse form of alienation than to feel uprooted, belonging to no one.” (Pope Francis) What are two dangerous forms of alienation?
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Radical Secularism is driven by this skeptical relativism which basically holds that there is no such thing as an objective truth. There’s just what I believe, you believe, a group, a nation believes; nothing is objectively true.
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The human environment involves “the moral structure with which [man] has been endowed.” (Pope Francis)
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In his desire to have and to enjoy rather than to be and to grow, man consumes the resources of the earth and his own life in an excessive and disordered way.