Sponsor Meeting #2 2022

• The person is not only sacred but also social. We flourish and find happiness in community.

• How we organize our society -- in economics and politics, in law and policy -- directly affects human dignity and the capacity of individuals to grow in community.

• Marriage and the family are the central social institutions that must be supported and strengthened, not undermined.

• We believe people have a right and a duty to participate in society, seeking together the common good and well-being of all, especially the poor and vulnerable.

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3. Rights and Responsibilities

• The Catholic tradition teaches that human dignity can be protected and a healthy community can be achieved only if human rights are protected and responsibilities are met.

• Therefore, every person has a fundamental right to life and a right to those things required for human decency.

• Corresponding to these rights are duties and responsibilities--to one another, to our families, and to the larger society.

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4. Option for the Poor and Vulnerable

• A basic moral test is how the most vulnerable, poor, or suffering people in our community are doing.

• In a society marred by deepening divisions between rich and poor, our tradition recalls the story of the Last Judgment (Mt 25:31-46) and instructs us to put the needs of the poor and vulnerable first.

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5. The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers

• The economy (money, businesses, corporations, etc.) must serve people, not the other way around.

• Work is more than a way to make a living; it is a form of continuing participation in Gods creation.

• If the dignity of work is to be protected, then the basic rights of workers must be respected--the right to productive work, to decent and fair wages, to the organization and joining of unions, to private property, and to economic initiative.

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6. Solidarity

• We are one human family whatever our national, racial, ethnic, economic, and ideological differences. We are our brothers and sisters keepers, wherever they may be.

• Loving our neighbor has global dimensions in a shrinking world. At the core of the virtue of solidarity is the pursuit of justice and peace.

• Pope Paul VI taught that if you want peace, work for justice.

• The Gospel calls us to be peacemakers. Our love for all our sisters and brothers demands that we promote peace in a world surrounded by violence and conflict.

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7. Care for God's Creation

• We show our respect for the Creator by caring for all of creation and the environment.

• Care for the earth is not just an Earth Day slogan, it is a requirement of our faith.

• We are called to protect people and the planet, living our faith in relationship with all of Gods creation.

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How is it upheld or not upheld in your life: in your family and friends, in your school and other communities, in the society?