CCC 1930 Human Dignity

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Social justice is linked to the common good and the exercise of authority. </div> <bR> <div> <B>I. RESPECT FOR THE HUMAN PERSON</B><B> </B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="javascript:openWindow('cr/1929.htm')" TARGET="_top" TITLE="javascript:openWindow('cr/1929.htm')">1929</A> Social justice can be obtained only in respecting the transcendent dignity of man. The person represents the ultimate end of society, which is ordered to him: </div> <div> What is at stake is the dignity of the human person, whose defense and promotion have been entrusted to us by the Creator, and to whom the men and women at every moment of history are strictly and responsibly in debt.35 </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="javascript:openWindow('cr/1930.htm')" TARGET="_top" TITLE="javascript:openWindow('cr/1930.htm')">1930</A> Respect for the human person entails respect for the rights that flow from his dignity as a creature. These rights are prior to society and must be recognized by it. They are the basis of the moral legitimacy of every authority: by flouting them, or refusing to recognize them in its positive legislation, a society undermines its own moral legitimacy.36 If it does not respect them, authority can rely only on force or violence to obtain obedience from its subjects. It is the Church's role to remind men of good will of these rights and to distinguish them from unwarranted or false claims. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="javascript:openWindow('cr/1931.htm')" TARGET="_top" TITLE="javascript:openWindow('cr/1931.htm')">1931</A> Respect for the human person proceeds by way of respect for the principle that "everyone should look upon his neighbor (without any exception) as 'another self,' above all bearing in mind his life and the means necessary for living it with dignity."37 No legislation could by itself do away with the fears, prejudices, and attitudes of pride and selfishness which obstruct the establishment of truly fraternal societies. Such behavior will cease only through the charity that finds in every man a "neighbor," a brother. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="javascript:openWindow('cr/1932.htm')" TARGET="_top" TITLE="javascript:openWindow('cr/1932.htm')">1932</A> The duty of making oneself a neighbor to others and actively serving them becomes even more urgent when it involves the disadvantaged, in whatever area this may be. "As you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me."38 </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="javascript:openWindow('cr/1933.htm')" TARGET="_top" TITLE="javascript:openWindow('cr/1933.htm')">1933</A> This same duty extends to those who think or act differently from us. The teaching of Christ goes so far as to require the forgiveness of offenses. He extends the commandment of love, which is that of the New Law, to all enemies.39 Liberation in the spirit of the Gospel is incompatible with hatred of one's enemy as a person, but not with hatred of the evil that he does as an enemy. </div> <bR> <div> <B>II. EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCES AMONG MEN</B><B> </B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="javascript:openWindow('cr/1934.htm')" TARGET="_top" TITLE="javascript:openWindow('cr/1934.htm')">1934</A> Created in the image of the one God and equally endowed with rational souls, all men have the same nature and the same origin. Redeemed by the sacrifice of Christ, all are called to participate in the same divine beatitude: all therefore enjoy an equal dignity. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="javascript:openWindow('cr/1935.htm')" TARGET="_top" TITLE="javascript:openWindow('cr/1935.htm')">1935</A> The equality of men rests essentially on their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it: </div> <div> Every form of social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, color, social conditions, language, or religion must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God's design.40 </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="javascript:openWindow('cr/1936.htm')" TARGET="_top" TITLE="javascript:openWindow('cr/1936.htm')">1936</A> On coming into the world, man is not equipped with everything he needs for developing his bodily and spiritual life. He needs others. Differences appear tied to age, physical abilities, intellectual or moral aptitudes, the benefits derived from social commerce, and the distribution of wealth.41 The "talents" are not distributed equally.42 </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="javascript:openWindow('cr/1937.htm')" TARGET="_top" TITLE="javascript:openWindow('cr/1937.htm')">1937</A> These differences belong to God's plan, who wills that each receive what he needs from others, and that those endowed with particular "talents" share the benefits with those who need them. These differences encourage and often oblige persons to practice generosity, kindness, and sharing of goods; they foster the mutual enrichment of cultures: </div> <div> I distribute the virtues quite diversely; I do not give all of them to each person, but some to one, some to others. . . . I shall give principally charity to one; justice to another; humility to this one, a living faith to that one. . . . And so I have given many gifts and graces, both spiritual and temporal, with such diversity that I have not given everything to one single person, so that you may be constrained to practice charity towards one another. . . . I have willed that one should need another and that all should be my ministers in distributing the graces and gifts they have received from me.43 </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="javascript:openWindow('cr/1938.htm')" TARGET="_top" TITLE="javascript:openWindow('cr/1938.htm')">1938</A> There exist also sinful inequalities that affect millions of men and women. These are in open contradiction of the Gospel: </div> <div> Their equal dignity as persons demands that we strive for fairer and more humane conditions. Excessive economic and social disparity between individuals and peoples of the one human race is a source of scandal and militates against social justice, equity, human dignity, as well as social and international peace.44 </div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCFF66 HEIGHT= 598 WIDTH="596"><div> <B>Sacred Scripture</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>First account of the creation of humans. </B></I><B>Genesis 1:26-31</B></div> <bR> <div> 26 Then God said: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground." </div> <div> 27 God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them. </div> <div> 28 God blessed them, saying: "Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth." </div> <div> 29 God also said: "See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food; </div> <div> 30 and to all the animals of the land, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the ground, I give all the green plants for food." And so it happened. </div> <div> 31 God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good. Evening came, and morning followed--the sixth day. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Second account of the creation of humans. </B></I><B>Genesis 2:4-9</B></div> <bR> <div> 4 Such is the story of the heavens and the earth at their creation. At the time when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens-- </div> <div> 5 while as yet there was no field shrub on earth and no grass of the field had sprouted, for the LORD God had sent no rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the soil, </div> <div> 6 but a stream was welling up out of the earth and was watering all the surface of the ground-- </div> <div> 7 the LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. </div> <div> 8 Then the LORD God planted a garden in CityplaceEden, in the east, and he placed there the man whom he had formed. </div> <div> 9 Out of the ground the LORD God made various trees grow that were delightful to look at and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. </div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 196 WIDTH="596"><div> <B>CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>DEFINITION</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>751</B><B> </B>The word <B>"Church"</B> (Latin <I>ecclesia</I>, from the Greek <I>ek-ka-lein</I>, to "call out of") means a convocation or an assembly. It designates the assemblies of the people, usually for a religious purpose. <I><B>Ekklesia</B></I><I> </I>is used frequently in the Greek Old Testament for the assembly of the Chosen People before God, above all for their assembly on Mount Sinai where country-regionplaceIsrael received the Law and was established by God as his holy people. By calling itself "Church," the first community of Christian believers recognized itself as heir to that assembly. In the Church, God is "calling together" his people from all the ends of the earth. The equivalent Greek term <I><B>Kyriake</B></I>, from which the English word <I>Church </I>and the German <I><B>Kirche</B></I><I> </I>are derived, means "what belongs to the Lord."</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCFF66 HEIGHT= 410 ><NOBR><bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="536" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCFF66 HEIGHT= 80 ><NOBR><div> <I><B><U>Western Rite Catholic Church</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>1. Roman</B> </div> <bR> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCFF66 WIDTH="212"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="80" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="212" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCFF66 HEIGHT= 288 ><NOBR><div> <I><B><U>Eastern Rite Catholic Churches</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>2. Alexandrian</B> </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Coptic </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ethiopian </div> <bR> <div> <B>3. Antiochene</B> </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Malankar (1930) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Maronite (around 1150) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Syrian </div> <bR> <div> <B>4. Chaldean</B> </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Chaldean (1681) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Malabâr </div> <bR> <div> <B>5. Armenian</B> (1439) </div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCFF66><NOBR><bR> <bR> <div> <B>6. Byzantine</B> </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Albanian </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Bulgarian </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Georgian </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Greek </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Hungarian </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Italo - Albanian </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Melchite (1724) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Romanian (1698) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Russian </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ruthenian (1592) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Slovak </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ukrainian (1596) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">White Russian (1917) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Yugoslavian </div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="596"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="596" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="596"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="596" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>