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VALUE OF CIVIL SOCIETY
- 417.
- “The political community is established to be of service to civil society, from which it originates.”
- “Civil society is the sum of relationships and resources, cultural and associative, that are relatively independent from the political sphere and the economic sector.”
PRIORITY OF CIVIL SOCIETY
- 418.
- “The political community and civil society, although mutually connected and interdependent, are not equal in the hierarchy of ends.”
- “The State must provide and adequate legal framework for social subjects to engage freely in their different activities and it must be ready to intervene, when necessary and with respect for the principle of subsidiarity.”
APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SUBSIDIARITY
- 419.
- “The political community is responsible for regulating its relations with civil society according to the principle of subsidiarity.”
- 420.
- “Cooperation, even in its less structured forms, shows itself to be one of the most effective responses to a mentality of conflict and unlimited competition that seems so prevalent today.”
- “Many experiences of volunteer work are examples of great value that call people to look upon civil society as a place where it is possible to rebuild a public ethic based on solidarity, concrete cooperation and fraternal dialogue.”
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