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None but superficial minds could stumble into concepts of a national God, of a national religion; or attempt to lock within the frontiers of a single people, within the narrow limits of a single race, God, the Creator of the universe, King and Legislator of all nations before whose immensity they are "as a drop of a bucket"

• Gaudium et Spes (Vatican II)

• Fratelli Tutti (Francis)

• Mitt Brennender Sorge (Pius XI)

• Rerum Novarum (Leo XIII)

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The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light. For Adam, the first man, was a figure of Him Who was to come, namely Christ the Lord. Christ, the final Adam, by the revelation of the mystery of the Father and His love, fully reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear.

• Laudato Si' (Francis)

• Gaudium et Spes (Vatican II)

• Laborem Exercens (John Paul II)

• Populorum Progressio (Paul VI)

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No one, then, can remain excluded because of his or her place of birth, much less because of privileges enjoyed by others who were born in lands of greater opportunity. The limits and borders of individual states cannot stand in the way of this. As it is unacceptable that some have fewer rights by virtue of being women, it is likewise unacceptable that the mere place of one’s birth or residence should result in his or her possessing fewer opportunities for a developed and dignified life.

• Fratelli Tutti (Francis)

• Gaudum et Spes (Vatican II)

• Populorum Progressio (Paul VI)

• Pacem in Terris (John XXIII)

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It is generally accepted today that the common good is best safeguarded when personal rights and duties are guaranteed. The chief concern of civil authorities must therefore be to ensure that these rights are recognized, respected, coordinated, defended and promoted, and that each individual is enabled to perform his duties more easily. For "to safeguard the inviolable rights of the human person, and to facilitate the performance of his duties, is the principal duty of every public authority."

• Rerum Novarum (Leo XIII)

• Pacem in Terris (John XXIII)

• Populorum Progressio (Paul VI)

• Gaudium et Spes (Vatican II)

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As I was writing this letter, the Covid-19 pandemic unexpectedly erupted, exposing our false securities. Aside from the different ways that various countries responded to the crisis, their inability to work together became quite evident. For all our hyper-connectivity, we witnessed a fragmentation that made it more difficult to resolve problems that affect us all. Anyone who thinks that the only lesson to be learned was the need to improve what we were already doing, or to refine existing systems and regulations, is denying reality.

• Lumen Fidei (Francis)

• Laudato Si' (Francis)

• Fratelli Tutti (Francis)

• Laudate Deum (Francis)

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The Church is convinced that work is a fundamental dimension of man's existence on earth. She is confirmed in this conviction by considering the whole heritage of the many sciences devoted to man: anthropology, palaeontology, history, sociology, psychology and so on; they all seem to bear witness to this reality in an irrefutable way. But the source of the Church's conviction is above all the revealed word of God, and therefore what is a conviction of the intellect is also a conviction of faith.

• Rerum Novarum (Leo XIII)

• Mater et Magistra (John XXIII)

• Gaudium et Spes (Vatican II)

• Laborem Exercens (John Paul II)

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Men and women have constantly intervened in nature, but for a long time this meant being in tune with and respecting the possibilities offered by the things themselves. It was a matter of receiving what nature itself allowed, as if from its own hand. Now, by contrast, we are the ones to lay our hands on things, attempting to extract everything possible from them while frequently ignoring or forgetting the reality in front of us.

• Caritas in Veritate (Benedict XVI)

• Fratelli Tutti (Francis)

• Laudato Si' (Francis)

• Gaudium et Spes (Vatican II)

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As We pass all this in review, We are aware of Our responsibility to take up this torch which Our great predecessors lighted, and hand it on with undiminished flame. It is a torch to lighten the pathways of all who would seek appropriate solutions to the many social problems of our times. Our purpose, therefore, is not merely to commemorate in a fitting manner the Leonine encyclical, but also to confirm and make more specific the teaching of Our predecessors, and to determine clearly the mind of the Church on the new and important problems of the day.

• Quadragesimo Anno (Pius XI)

• Mater et Magistra (John XXIII)

• Octogesima Adveniens (Paul VI)

• Laborem Exercens (John Paul II)

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The following duties bind the wealthy owner and the employer: not to look upon their work people as their bondsmen, but to respect in every man his dignity as a person ennobled by Christian character.

• Rerum Novarum (Leo XIII)

• Quadragesimo Anno (Pius XI)

• Mater et Magistra (John XXIII)

• Laborem Exercens (John Paul II)

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Charity is at the heart of the Church's social doctrine. Every responsibility and every commitment spelt out by that doctrine is derived from charity which, according to the teaching of Jesus, is the synthesis of the entire Law.

• Gaudium et Spes (Vatican II)

• Mater et Magistra (John XXIII)

• Caritas in Veritate (Benedict XVI)

• Fratelli Tutti (Francis)