In teaching us charity, the Gospel instructs us in the preferential respect due to the poor and the special situation they have in society: the more fortunate should renounce some of their rights so as to place their goods more generously at the service of others. Pope Paul VI, Octogesima Adveniens (1971), n.23.
Without putting themselves in the place of the institutions of civil society, [Christian organisations] have to express, in their own way and rising above their particular nature, the concrete demands of the Christian faith for a just, and consequently necessary, transformation of society.
Paul VI, Octogesima Adveniens (1971), n.51.
Love — caritas — is an extraordinary force which leads people to opt for courageous and generous engagement in the field of justice and peace. Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate (2009), n.1.
Mosaic by Fr Marko Rupnik SJ in the chapel of the Mysteries of Light, National Shrine of St John Paul II in Washington DC.
Photo credit: Fr Lawrence Lew OP. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/paullew/21838061524/
Detail of ‘The Risen Christ and Two Disciples Reach Emmaus on Easter Evening’ by Brian Thomas (c.1934) in the Lady Chapel of Bangor Cathedral. Source: Fr Lawrence Lew OP, https://www.flickr.com/photos/paullew/51100391616/
The Prodigal Son repents. Detail from painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, c.1879. Source: Fr Lawrence Lew OP, https://www.flickr.com/photos/paullew/47505649291/
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