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Slide 1:Person and Society
DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON :DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON Created in God’s image Called to live with God forever
The person as gift: to exist in relation with others :The person as gift: to exist in relation with others SAME DIGNITY WITH DIFFERENCES See CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1937
MAN’S SOCIAL NATURE :MAN’S SOCIAL NATURE Through the exchange with others, mutual service and dialogue with his brethren, man develops his potential; he thus responds to his vocation.” CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1879
Slide 5:THE FAMILY
Slide 6:THE STATE The society formed by citizens who live in a defined territory under the same civil authority. Not the same as the “government” (which refers to civil authority).
Slide 7:SOCIETY A group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that transcends them.
Slide 8:Quality of a person by which he has the power to make laws, give commands to his subjects and expect obedience from them. AUTHORITY
Slide 9:AUTHORITY REQUIRED BY MORAL ORDER COMES FROM GOD Romans 13:1
MORAL LEGITIMACY OF AUTHORITY :MORAL LEGITIMACY OF AUTHORITY See Acts 5:29; CCC 1902, 1903 and 2236
Slide 11:AUTHORITY DEPENDS ON ITS CITIZENS Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes, 74
Slide 12:PRINCIPLE OF SUBSIDIARITY CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 1883-1884
COMMON GOOD :COMMON GOOD CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 1905-1910, 1912
UNIVERSAL COMMON GOOD :UNIVERSAL COMMON GOOD CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 1911
PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC LIFE :PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC LIFE
CHARITY AND JUSTICE :CHARITY AND JUSTICE