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UNITY OF THE HUMAN FAMILY
- 428.
- “The biblical accounts of creation bring out the unity of the human family and teach that the God of Israel is the Lord of history and of the cosmos.”
- 429.
- “Following the destruction wrought by the flood, God’s covenant with Noah, and in him with all of humanity, shows that God wants to maintain for the human community the blessing of fertility.”
- 430.
- “The covenant that God established with Abraham, chosen to be ‘the father of a multitude of nations,’ opens the way for the human family to make a return to its Creator.”
JESUS CHRIST, PROTOTYPE AND FOUNDATION OF THE NEW HUMANITY
- 431.
- “The Lord Jesus is the prototype and foundation of the new humanity.”
- “Thanks to the Spirit, the Church is aware of the divine plan of unity that involves the entire human race.”
THE UNIVERSAL VOCATION OF CHRISTIANITY
- 432.
- “The Christian message offers a universal vision of the life of man and peoples on earth that makes us realize the unity of the human family.”
- Pius XII, Address to Catholic Jurists on the Communities of States and Peoples (6 December 1953), 2: AAS 45 (1953), 795.
- Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 42: AAS 58 (1966), 1060-1061.
- John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 40: AAS 80 (1988), 569.
- John Paul II, Address to the Fiftieth General Assembly of the United Nations (5 October 1995), 12: L'Osservatore Romano, English edition, 11 October 1995, p. 9.
- John XXIII, Encylical Letter Pacem in Terris: AAS 55 (1963), 296.
- John XXIII, Encylical Letter Pacem in Terris: AAS 55 (1963), 292.
