For everyone, even fetuses!
Good paragraph here:
'"Human rights, therefore, are ultimately rooted in a participation of God, who has created each human person with intelligence and freedom," Pope Benedict explained. "If this solid ethical and political basis is ignored, human rights remain fragile since they are deprived of their sound foundation."'
This makes me stand up and cheer, but shouldn’t this be obvious to everyone? When the elites in most Western nations object to such a simple statement, you know that we’re fighting a spiritual battle here, against “principalities and powers.”
Here’s the “money quote”, which could have been lifted directly from +John Chrysostomos’ “On Wealth and Poverty”.
“This perspective draws attention to some of the most critical social problems of recent decades, such as the growing awareness – which has in part arisen with globalisation and the present economic crisis – of a flagrant contrast between the equal attribution of rights and the unequal access to the means of attaining those rights. For Christians who regularly ask God to “give us this day our daily bread”, it is a shameful tragedy that one-fifth of humanity still goes hungry. Assuring an adequate food supply, like the protection of vital resources such as water and energy, requires all international leaders to collaborate in showing a readiness to work in good faith, respecting the natural law and promoting solidarity and subsidiarity with the weakest regions and peoples of the planet as the most effective strategy for eliminating social inequalities between countries and societies and for increasing global security.”
No support in this lecture for the recent heresy spread by some American Roman Catholic bishops that their imagined dogma of being anti-abortion supersedes all other dogmas of The Church. And one wonders how much support the Papal call to international social activism will find among the those who have bought into that peculiar American heresy because it furthers their anti-Obama political agenda.
April 11, 1963
Establishing Universal Peace In Truth, Justice, Charity, And Liberty, Pope John XXIII
“Man’s personal dignity requires besides that he enjoy freedom and be able to make up his own mind when he acts.
In his association with his fellows, therefore, there is every reason why his recognition of rights, observance of duties, and many-sided collaboration with other men, should be primarily a matter of his own personal decision.
Each man should act on his own initiative, conviction, and sense of responsibility, not under the constant pressure of external coercion or enticement.
There is nothing human about a society that is welded together by force.
Far from encouraging, as it should, the attainment of man’s progress and perfection, it is merely an obstacle to his freedom.”
“Hence, a regime which governs solely or mainly by means of threats and intimidation or promises of reward, provides men with no effective incentive to work for the common good.
And even if it did, it would certainly be offensive to the dignity of free and rational human beings.”
“Consequently, laws and decrees passed in contravention of the moral order, and hence of the divine will, can have no binding force in conscience, since ‘it is right to obey God rather than men.’”
Excerpts From Pacem In Terris: Peace on Earth - Encyclical of Pope John XXIII
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