The Church and the State (Nation) :The Church and the State (Nation) “Give to Caesar what belong to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.”


What Is the State? “United States” :What Is the State? “United States” The state is the society composed of people living in a defined territory and under the jurisdiction of the same civil authority. The state is not the same as the government or the civil authority.


Relations Between Church and State :Relations Between Church and State By reason of her role and competence, the Church is not identified with any political community. By God’s will, the Church and the political community are autonomous and independent of each other in their own fields.


They Differ in Their Nature and Aims :They Differ in Their Nature and Aims The Church is a society of the supernatural order. The final end she pursues is supernatural. The means she employs are primarily the supernatural means. The State is of the natural order and its end is the temporal common good.


Harmony :Harmony The Church and State are not in opposition because both pursue the good of man. They must collaborate in this service each within its own sphere of competence.


Duty of the State :Duty of the State The State should foster the integral development of the human person. This development must include the religious dimension of man. Concretely, the State must respect the person’s religious freedom.


The Role of the Church :The Role of the Church The Church must preach the truths taught by Jesus about man and society. Ethics. These truths will illuminate men’s activities in social and civic life. Men’s activities in public life have a moral dimension that must be ordered to his supernatural last end.


The Rights of the Church :The Rights of the Church The Church has the right and the duty to proclaim its teaching about society and to pass moral judgments even in matters relating to politics, whenever the fundamental rights of man or the salvation of souls requires it. Examples: education, marriage, defense of human life.


Cooperation :Cooperation In certain areas, both the Church and the State have a right to intervene in accord with their respective sphere of competence and ends: in education, matrimony, communication, and assistance to the poor.


On Marriage :On Marriage The Church has the right to regulate the marriage of Catholics, even if only one of the parties is Catholic. The State is responsible for regulating its civil effects.


Slide 11:This sex education is spread by large organizations and international associations that promote abortion, sterilization and contraception. These organizations want to impose a false lifestyle against the truth of human sexuality. Working at national or state levels, these organizations try to arouse the fear of the threat of over-population among children and young people to promote the contraceptive mentality, that is, the anti life mentality. Secularized and anti-natalist sex education puts God at the margin of life and regards the birth of a child as a threat.


Reproductive health :Reproductive health They spread false ideas about the reproductive health and sexual and reproductive rights of young people. Furthermore, some antinatalist organizations maintain those clinics which, violating the rights of parents, provide abortion and contraception for young people, thus promoting promiscuity and consequently an increase in teenage pregnancies.


On Education :On Education The right and duty to educate children belongs to parents by natural law. Catholic parents have the responsibility to educate their children in the faith. The State has the competence to give norms of education needed for the common good.


Other Areas Civil Life :Other Areas Civil Life The Church also has the right to promote social works compatible with its religious mission: hospitals, schools, universities, TV and radio stations, orphanages, etc. The State ought to grant these works the same treatment as works of the same type promoted by private groups.


Rights and Duties in Social Life :Rights and Duties in Social Life In temporal matters, the Christian faithful ought to be guided by an upright conscience. Christians should exercise their civil rights and fulfill their duties. They shouldn’t wait for Church authorities to solve temporal problems. Active participation of Catholics in Unions, Politics, Schools, etc.


CATHOLIC POLITICIANS URGED TO BE CONSISTENT :CATHOLIC POLITICIANS URGED TO BE CONSISTENT "How can a politician separate his social and professional vocation from a sound anthropology, from a vision that responds to the world's most profound aspirations?" said Cardinal López Trujillo (P. C. Family). "A politician, Aristotle said, is an architect of society," he added. "One cannot look at the action of a public figure, above all in matters of family law, without asking what good he pursues, what kind of sons and daughters, and parents of families does he want to build the future."


CATHOLIC POLITICIANS URGED TO BE CONSISTENT :CATHOLIC POLITICIANS URGED TO BE CONSISTENT 1. Participate in political, social activities, in accordance with competence ad possibilities. 2. Personal Freedom. 3. Obey laws. 4. Oppose unjust laws (cooperation in evil).


The most recommendable economic system: :5/24/2009 The most recommendable economic system: 2425 The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with "communism" or "socialism." She has likewise refused to accept, in the practice of "capitalism," individualism and the absolute primacy of the law of the marketplace over human labor.


Promoting common good :Promoting common good Life (abortion, euthanasia...) & matrimony Traffic Rights to property Adoption Slavery Human engineering (cloning, experimentation) Problem with frozen embryos


Social Initiatives to Help the Poor and Marginalized. :5/24/2009 Social Initiatives to Help the Poor and Marginalized. Construction workers Domestic helpers Families of migrant workers


Politics :Politics The lay faithful should in no way abdicate their participation in politics. The members of the hierarchy should not involve themselves in politics: they should have their arms wide open to everyone – left, right or center.


The End :The End