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MORALITY AND THE ECONOMY
- 330.
- “The Church’s social doctrine insists on the moral connotations of the economy.”
- 331.
- “The relation between morality and economics is necessary, indeed intrinsic: economic activity and moral behavior are intimately joined one to the other. The necessary distinction between morality and the economy does not entail the separation of these two spheres but, on the contrary, an important reciprocity.”
- 332.
- “The moral dimension of the economy shows that economic efficiency and the promotion of human development in solidarity are not two separate or alternative aims but one indivisible goal.”
- 333.
- “If economic activity is to have a moral character, it must be directed to all men and to all peoples.”
- Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 65: AAS 58 (1966), 1086-1087.
- John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 32: AAS 80 (1988), 556-557.
- John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 41: AAS 83 (1991), 844.
- John Paul II, Message for the 2000 World Day of Peace, 15-16: AAS 92 (2000), 366-367.
- 334.
- “The economy has as its object the development of wealth and its progressive increase, not only in quantity but also in quality; this is morally correct if it is directed to man’s overall development in solidarity and to that of the society in which people live and work.”
- 335.
- “In the perspective of an integral and solidary development, it is possible to arrive at a proper appreciation of the moral evaluation that the Church’s social doctrine offers in regard to the market economy or, more simply, of the free economy.”
