
On Christian Democracy and the Lost Tradition of Courtesy
COMMENTARY: Courtesy is an old-fashioned and out-of-fashion word, but it’s an up-to-date idea.
COMMENTARY: Courtesy is an old-fashioned and out-of-fashion word, but it’s an up-to-date idea.
COMMENTARY: Courtesy is an old-fashioned and out-of-fashion word, but it’s an up-to-date idea.
‘The dignity of the human person is rooted in his creation in the image and likeness of God; it is fulfilled in his vocation to divine beatitude …’ (Catechism 1700)
‘The teaching and spreading of her social doctrine,’ says Pope St. John Paul II, ‘are part of the Church’s evangelizing mission.’
“Respect for the human person considers the other ‘another self.’ It presupposes respect for the fundamental rights that flow from the dignity intrinsic of the person.” (CCC 1944)
Pope Francis praised the foundation for being a seed of hope and supporting projects that combat the widespread culture of waste.
This discourse matters, and it’s shaping perspectives throughout the Catholic world
There is a palpable difference between an entombed human body, ashes left over from cremation and effluent remaining from alkaline hydrolysis.
Pope Francis met with the foundation that supports the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital of Rome, a medical school hospital affiliated with the Catholic personal prelature Opus Dei.
“The equality of men rests essentially on their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it: ‘Every form of social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, color, social conditions, language, or religion must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God’s design.’” (CCC 1935)
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