Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Peter Kreeft

Author:Peter Kreeft [Kreeft, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Religion, Catholicism, Catechesis, Christianity
ISBN: 9780898707984
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2001-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

17. Duties of nations

“The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin” (CCC 2241).

Rich nations are also obliged in charity to aid poor nations, especially in cases of immediate need, such as famine.

Families are also expected to extend charity to other families, just as individuals and nations are. If individual and family charity did its proper work, impersonal government bureaucracies could be less extensive, less expensive, and less intrusive. “Participation” [in society] “is achieved first of all by taking charge of the areas for which one assumes personal responsibility: by the care taken for the education of his family, by conscientious work, and so forth [cf. CA 43]” (CCC 1914). These concrete, immediate duties should not be neglected for the sake of abstract, far-away causes that give one the illusion of being very idealistic and moral. Christ commanded us to love our neighbor, not “humanity”.

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