"Catholic Social Thought": Civilization of Love

CONCLUSION –– FOR A CIVILIZATION OF LOVE

• 575.
• “In modern society, people are increasingly experiencing a new need for meaning.”
• Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 41: AAS 58 (1966), 1059.
• John XXIII, Encyclical Letter Mater et Magistra: AAS 53 (1961), 451.
• 576.
• “To these basic questions about the meaning and purpose of human life the Church responds with the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ, which liberates the dignity of the human person from changing opinions and ensures the freedom of men and women as no human law can do.”
• Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 41: AAS 58 (1966), 1059.
• Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 41: AAS 58 (1966), 1059-1060.

• 577.
• “Faith in God and in Jesus Christ sheds light on the moral principles that are ‘the sole and irreplaceable foundation of that stability and tranquility, of that internal and external order, private and public, that alone can generate and safeguard the prosperity of States.’”
• Pius XII, Encyclical Letter Summi Pontificatus: AAS 31 (1939), 425.
• John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 55: AAS 83 (1991), 860-861.
• John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Veritatis Splendor, 98: AAS 85 (1993), 1210.
• John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 24: AAS 83 (1991), 821-822.
• John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte, 29: AAS 93 (2001), 285.

• 578.
• “The Church teaches men and women that God offers them the real possibility of overcoming evil and attaining good.”
• John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 47: AAS 80 (1988), 580.
• 579.
• “Christian hope lends great energy to commitment in the social field, because it generates confidence in the possibility of building a better world, even if there will never exist ‘a paradise of earth.’”
• John XXIII, Encyclical Letter Mater et Magistra: AAS 53 (1961), 541.
• Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, 35: AAS 57 (1965), 40.

• 580.
• “The immediate purpose of the Church’s social doctrine is to propose the principles and values that can sustain a society worthy of the human person.  Among these principles, solidarity includes all the others in a certain way.”
• John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 10: AAS 83 (1991), 805-806.
• John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 40: AAS 80 (1988), 568.
• Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 38: AAS 58 (1966), 1055-1056.
• Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, 42: AAS 57 (1965), 47-48.
• Catechism of the Catholic Church, 826.
• 581.
• “Love must be present in and permeate every social relationship.”
• Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1889.
• Leo XIII, Encyclical Letter Rerum Novarum: Acta Leonis XIII, 11 (1892), 143.
• Benedict XV, Encyclical Letter Pacem Dei: AAS 12 (1920), 215.
• Saint Thomas Aquinas, QD De caritate, a. 9, c.
• Pius XI, Encyclical Letter Quadragesimo Anno: AAS 23 (1931), 206-207.
• John XXIII, Encyclical Letter Mater et Magistra: AAS 53 (1961), 410.
• Paul VI, Address to FAO (16 November 1970), 11: AAS 62 (1970), 837-838.
• John Paul II, Address to the Members of the Pontifical Commission “Iustitia et Pax” (9 February 1980), 7: AAS 72 (1980), 187.
• Paul VI, Apostolic Letter Octogesima Adveniens, 46: AAS 63 (1971), 433-435.
• Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree Apostolicam Actuositatem, 8: AAS 58 (1966), 844-845.
• Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 44: AAS 59 (1967), 279.
• John Paul II, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici, 42: AAS 81 (1989), 472-476.
• Catechsim of the Catholic Church, 1939.
• John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Redemptor Hominis, 15: AAS 71 (1979), 288.
• 582.
• “In order to make society more human, more worthy of the human person, love in social life –– political, economic and cultural –– must be given renewed value, becoming the constant and highest norm for all activity.”
• John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Dives in Misericordia, 14: AAS 72 (1980), 1223.
• John Paul II, Message for the 2004 World Day of Peace, 10: AAS 96 (2004), 121.
• John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Dives in Misericordia, 14: AAS 72 (1980), 1224.
• Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2212.
• Saint John Chrysostom, Homilia De Perfecta Caritate, 1, 2: PG 56, 281-282.
• 583.
• “Only love can completely transform the human person.”
• John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte, 49-51: AAS 93 (2001), 302-304.
• John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 5: AAS 83 (1991), 798-800.
• Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1889.
• Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Act of Offering in Story of a Soul, tr. John Clarke (Washington, D.C.: ICS 1981, p. 277), as quoted in Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2011.