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Bible Quotes Establishing Catholic Social Teaching<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Bible quotes establishing Catholic social teaching.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Bible Quotes about Catholic Social Teaching<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n


Catholic social teaching is built on three principles, human dignity<\/a>, solidarity<\/a>, subsidiarity<\/a>. From these come all teaching on every contemporary issue our society struggles with.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Catholic social teaching is not a modern invention. It is rooted in Scripture, and these scripture quotes illustrate where the principles come from.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

HUMAN DIGNITY<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  1. \u201cLet us make<\/strong>\u00a0man in our image<\/strong>, after our likeness.\u201d (Genesis 1:26)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. \u201cBefore I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you.\u201d (Jeremiah 1:5) <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. \u201cYou have made him little less than a god; with glory and honor you crowned him, gave him power over the works of your hand, put all things under his feet.\u201d (Psalm 8:5)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  4. One of the clearest teachings on the dignity of marriage comes from our Lord: \u201cJesus told them\u2026\u2019But from the beginning of creation, \u2018God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother [and be joined to his wife], and the two shall become one flesh.\u2019 So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate.\u201d (Mark 10:5-9)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  5. And again, \u201cI say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful) and marries another commits adultery.\u201d (Matthew 19:9)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  6. A culture of proactive support for homosexuality, transgenderism, gay marriage, etc., has strong admonishment in the Bible: \u201cDo not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.\u201d (1 Cor 6:9-10)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  7. The Bible addresses the dignity of work and rights of workers, another major theme in Catholic social teaching; \u201cBehold, the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.\u201d (James 5:4)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    SOLIDARITY<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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    1. \u201cA new commandment I give to you,\u200b \u200bthat you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.\u201d (John 13:34)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
    2. \"[I]f one member suffers anything, all the members suffer with it.\" (1 Cor 12:26) <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
    3. \"For what will it profit men to become expert in more wisely using their wealth, even to gaining the whole world, if thereby they suffer the loss of their souls?\" (Matthew 16:26) <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
    4. \u201cAs long as you did it to one of My least brethren you did it to Me.\u201d (Matthew 25:40)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
    5. \u201cBut now as for what is inside you\u2014be generous to the poor\u201d (Luke 11:41). As Pope Leo XIII reminds us \u201cwhen what necessity demands has been supplied\u2026it becomes a duty to give to the indigent out of what remains over\u201d. (Rerum Novarum, 22)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
    6. \"To whom much is given, much is expected\". (Luke 12:48)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
    7. The Church's preferential option for the poor comes directly from Christ calling them \"blessed\" (Matthew 5:3) and the early Church; \u201cneither was there any one needy among them.\u201d (Acts 4:34)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
    8. \u201cA brother that is helped by his brother is like a strong city.\u201d (Proverbs 18:19) <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
    9. \"If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?\" (1 John 3:17)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      SUBSIDIARITY<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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      1. \"For God is not a God of disorder but of peace\u2014as in all the congregations of the Lord's people.\" (1 Corinthians 14:33) This speaks to ordered, local governance of congregations.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
      2. \"Each one should carry their own load\" (Galatians 6:5) This suggests individual responsibility before moving to higher levels of support.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
      3. \"Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.\" (1 Timothy 5:8) This establishes the primacy of family-level responsibility before seeking broader help.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
      4. From Acts 6:1-7<\/strong>, we see the early church organizing local deacons to handle community needs, rather than centralizing all authority with the apostles.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
      5. \"For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.\" (Romans 12:4-5)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Catholic Quotes about the Church's Social Teaching<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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        Three Key Principles<\/a><\/h2>

        Catholic social teaching is built on three foundational principles -\u00a0<\/strong>Human Dignity<\/strong>,\u00a0Solidarity\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Subsidiarity.\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><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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        Human Dignity<\/a><\/h2>

        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><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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        Solidarity<\/a><\/h2>

        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. (Pope St. John Paul II, 38)<\/a> Love of God and love of neighbor are, in fact, linked and form one, single commandment.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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        Subsidiarity<\/a><\/h2>

        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. So, too, it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and a disturbance of right order to transfer to the larger and higher collectivity functions which can be performed and provided for by the lesser and subordinate bodies\u201d. (Pope Pius XI)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>

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