{"id":55820,"date":"2025-12-04T16:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/?p=55820"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:25:11","slug":"immigrant-rights-and-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/es\/2025\/12\/immigrant-rights-and-duties\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant Rights and Duties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Section&#8221; module_class=&#8221;mosaic_width&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; background_color=&#8221;#054368&#8243; height=&#8221;35px&#8221; height_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; height_phone=&#8221;35px&#8221; height_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; max_height=&#8221;35px&#8221; max_height_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; max_height_phone=&#8221;35px&#8221; max_height_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px|false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px|false|false&#8221; 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font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If moral responsibility depends on circumstances, what is required\u2014of immigrants, and of nations? Catholic Social Teaching answers with clarity: rights and duties always go together. Immigrants retain real obligations, even without legal status. Nations retain real authority, but it is never absolute. A just society must hold both together\u2014<a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/human-dignity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">human dignity<\/a> and <a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/the-common-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the common good<\/a>\u2014so that law serves the person, and the person contributes to the common good.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">From Moral Judgment to Moral Responsibility<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even those here without legal status retain real moral obligations:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/2025\/12\/is-undocumented-immigration-sinful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Part 1<\/a>, we established a critical distinction: what is illegal is not always the same as what is immoral.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/2025\/12\/immigrant-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Part 2<\/a>, we saw how that distinction plays out in real lives\u2014where intention, necessity, and circumstance shape moral judgment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now the question deepens.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">If moral responsibility is not automatic\u2014if it depends on circumstance\u2014then what, concretely, is required?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">What is asked of the immigrant? What is asked of the nation?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catholic Social Teaching answers with consistency and clarity: <strong>rights and duties always go together.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">The Duties of Immigrants\u2014Even Without Legal Status<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Church does not present migration as a moral blank check.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36059\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 400px;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36059 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/A-female-employee-works-at-a-factory-making-home-textiles.jpg\" alt=\"Immigrant rights and duties go hand-in-hand and the Church affirms both.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36059\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-36059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigrant rights and duties go hand-in-hand and the Church affirms both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even those without legal status remain moral agents and therefore bear real responsibilities toward the society they enter. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cImmigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens\u201d. <a class=\"alternate-link\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/catechism\/en\/part_three\/section_two\/chapter_two\/article_4\/v_the_authorities_in_civil_society.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CCC 2241)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This teaching applies to all\u2014documented or undocumented.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In practice, these duties take concrete form. They include respect for persons and property, honest participation in the workforce and the life of the community, and a genuine willingness to live within the framework of the law wherever possible.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They extend further still \u2014 toward integration: learning the language, engaging the culture, contributing to the common good through one&#8217;s labor and conduct, and seeking, where possible, to regularize one&#8217;s status in good faith.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">None of this is incidental. It reflects a deeper truth: <strong>Rights may justify migration\u2014but duties govern how one lives within it.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Church\u2019s moral framework is therefore not permissive. It does not excuse law-breaking undertaken for convenience or advantage. As established earlier in this series, moral mitigation applies most clearly in cases of grave necessity\u2014not in situations driven primarily by preference<br \/>or opportunity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">The Duties of Nations and the Political Community<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But responsibility does not rest with the individual alone. Political communities also bear moral obligations\u2014and these are no less real.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A state has the right to regulate its borders and labor markets in service of the common good. This authority is legitimate and necessary. Pope Leo XIV stated it plainly:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I think every country has a right to determine who and how and when people enter.&#8221;\u00a0<a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicworldreport.com\/2025\/11\/18\/pope-leo-xiv-urges-humane-treatment-of-immigrants-calls-for-heeding-u-s-bishops-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(November 18, 2025)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without such authority, ordered society cannot function.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet that authority carries its own demands. A nation that exercises authority over vulnerable persons is not thereby excused from accountability for how it does so. Law must serve justice\u2014and justice must remain anchored in the dignity of the human being. The Church is clear: a just society does not lose sight of the person behind the legal category.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means more than avoiding obvious cruelty. A nation fails in its responsibility when enforcement patterns elevate procedural violations above human dignity \u2014 when those who acted under genuine necessity are denied any path to reconciliation, when a permanent working underclass is allowed to persist in the shadows, or when families are separated without grave and proportionate reason.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also means ensuring that legal processes themselves reflect justice: that due process is honored, that labor protections are enforced, and that the system does not become an instrument of exploitation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The question, then, is not simply whether laws are enforced\u2014but <strong>how they are enforced, and in whose service.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">What Catholic Social Teaching Requires of Policy<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>Catholic Social Teaching does not offer a single legislative blueprint. It does something more demanding: it provides a moral framework\u2014rooted in human dignity,\u00a0<a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/solidarity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">solidarity<\/a>, and <a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/subsidiarity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subsidiarity<\/a>\u2014against which all policies must be evaluated.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When that framework is taken seriously, certain priorities follow naturally.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A just system does not leave long-term, contributing members of society in permanent legal uncertainty. It seeks, where possible, to bring them into stable and recognized status. It treats family unity not as a secondary concern but as a central good. It gives particular attention to those most vulnerable\u2014children, refugees, and those who did not choose their circumstances.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, it insists that legal processes themselves reflect justice: due process is not procedural excess, but a requirement of dignity. Labor protections are not optional safeguards, but essential to preventing exploitation that harms both immigrants and citizens alike.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are not policy preferences. They are moral requirements\u2014flowing from a single principle: <strong>the human person is not a problem to be managed, but a dignity to be upheld.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">The Church\u2019s \u201cYes\u2014And\u201d Teaching<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>Catholic Social Teaching refuses the false choice that dominates much of the public debate. <strong>It does not say: only compassion\u2014or only enforcement. It insists on both.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The right to migrate is real. It arises from the dignity of the human person and the legitimate desire to seek safety and livelihood. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms, more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome those who cannot find<br \/>security in their country of origin. <a class=\"alternate-link\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/catechism\/en\/part_three\/section_two\/chapter_two\/article_4\/v_the_authorities_in_civil_society.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CCC 2241)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This principle is echoed in Gaudium et Spes, which recognizes the right to pursue the conditions necessary for a dignified human life. <a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/messages\/peace\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_mes_20001208_xxxiv-world-day-for-peace.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Gaudium et Spes, 65)<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pope Benedict XVI affirmed this clearly: \u201cThe right of persons to migrate\u2026is numbered among the fundamental human rights\u201d. <a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/benedict-xvi\/en\/messages\/migration\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20121012_world-migrants-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Message, World Day Of Migrants And Refugees)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">And yet, this right is not without limits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Nations also possess the right\u2014and duty\u2014to regulate migration in service of the common good. Pope St. John Paul II expressed this balance with clarity: <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;The exercise of such a right is to be regulated, because practicing it indiscriminately may do harm and be detrimental to the common good of the community that receives the migrant&#8221;. <strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/messages\/migration\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_mes_20010213_world-migration-day-2001.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Message for World Day of Migration, 3)<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pope Benedict XVI reinforced it: <\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEvery state has the right to regulate migration and to enact policies dictated by the general requirements of the common good, albeit always in safeguarding respect for the dignity of each human person\u201d. <a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/benedict-xvi\/en\/messages\/migration\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20121012_world-migrants-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Message for World Day of Migrants)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And Pope Leo XIV, speaking without a script at Castel Gandolfo, brought it into the present moment. Every country has the right to determine who enters, he said \u2014 and then immediately added that people who have lived good lives for ten, fifteen, twenty years must still be treated with the dignity they possess. The right and the limit &#8211; stated together, in a single breath. <a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicworldreport.com\/2025\/11\/18\/pope-leo-xiv-urges-humane-treatment-of-immigrants-calls-for-heeding-u-s-bishops-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(November 18, 2025)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">This is not a compromise. It is a moral synthesis.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">Holding Both Together<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>This is the heart of the Church\u2019s teaching. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Human dignity must be protected. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Social order must be preserved.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When either is ignored, injustice follows.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But when both are held together, something more demanding \u2014 and more humane \u2014 emerges: a moral vision in which law serves the person, and the person contributes to the common good.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">From Responsibility to Reform<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>Parts 1 through 3 now make something clear: <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moral judgment depends on circumstances. Persons have duties. Nations have duties.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The remaining question is practical. <\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">How should a just society structure its laws so that both can be fulfilled?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">Continue the Series<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>Next:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/2025\/12\/when-there-is-no-path-to-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Part 4 \u2014 When There is No Path to Citizenship<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; 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image=&#8221;https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Three-Principles.png&#8221; use_bg_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; use_text_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; image_alt=&#8221;Three circles containing symbols of the three principles of catholic social teaching: human dignity, subsidiarity, and solidarity.&#8221; image_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; image_phone=&#8221;https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/3-Key-principle-icons-resized.png&#8221; image_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.5&#8243; header_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; button_on_hover=&#8221;on&#8221; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; overflow-x=&#8221;hidden&#8221; overflow-y=&#8221;hidden&#8221; link_option_url=&#8221;https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/catholic-social-teaching-principles\/&#8221; custom_css_slide_image=&#8221;width: 300px !important;||margin: 0 auto !important;&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_transition=&#8221;on&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">Catholic social teaching is built on three foundational principles &#8211;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Human Dignity<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Solidarity\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Subsidiarity.\u00a0<\/strong>Human Dignity, embodied in a correct understanding of the human person, is the greatest. The others flow from it. Good governments and good economic systems find ways of fostering the three principles.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide heading=&#8221;Human Dignity&#8221; button_link=&#8221;\/human-dignity\/&#8221; image=&#8221;https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Human-Dignity.png&#8221; use_bg_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; use_text_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.0&#8243; header_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; button_on_hover=&#8221;on&#8221; link_option_url=&#8221;\/human-dignity\/&#8221; custom_css_slide_image=&#8221;width: 200px !important;||margin: 0 auto !important;&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_transition=&#8221;on&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This means a correct understanding of the human person and of each person\u2019s unique value. All Catholic social teaching flows from this: the inherent dignity of every person that comes from being made in God\u2019s image.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide heading=&#8221;Solidarity&#8221; button_link=&#8221;\/solidarity\/&#8221; image=&#8221;https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Solidarity.png&#8221; use_bg_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; use_text_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.0&#8243; header_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; button_on_hover=&#8221;on&#8221; link_option_url=&#8221;\/solidarity\/&#8221; custom_css_slide_image=&#8221;width: 200px !important;||margin: 0 auto !important;&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_transition=&#8221;on&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Solidarity is not \u201ca feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of others. It is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good\u201d. <a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_30121987_sollicitudo-rei-socialis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Pope St. John Paul II, 38)<\/a> Love of God and love of neighbor are, in fact, linked and form one, single commandment.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide heading=&#8221;Subsidiarity&#8221; button_link=&#8221;\/subsidiarity\/&#8221; image=&#8221;https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Subsidiarity.png&#8221; use_bg_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; use_text_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.0&#8243; header_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; button_on_hover=&#8221;on&#8221; link_option_url=&#8221;\/subsidiarity\/&#8221; custom_css_slide_image=&#8221;width: 200px !important;||margin: 0 auto !important;&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_transition=&#8221;on&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Subsidiarity \u201cis a fundamental principle of social philosophy, fixed and unchangeable, that one should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry. 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