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Catechism of The Catholic Church #1941

1941 Socio-economic problems can be resolved only with the help of all the forms of solidarity: solidarity of the poor among themselves, between rich...
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Catechism of The Catholic Church #2425

2425 The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with "communism" or "socialism." She has likewise refused to accept,...
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Catechism of The Catholic Church #2273

2273 The inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element of a civil society and its legislation: "The inalienable rights...
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Catechism of the Catholic Church #2041

2041 The precepts of the Church are set in the context of a moral life bound to and nourished by liturgical life. the obligatory...
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Catechism of The Catholic Church #168

168 It is the Church that believes first, and so bears, nourishes and sustains my faith. Everywhere, it is the Church that first confesses...
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Catechism of the Catholic Church #1478

1478 An indulgence is obtained through the Church who, by virtue of the power of binding and loosing granted her by Christ Jesus, intervenes...
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Catechism of The Catholic Church #2237

2237 Political authorities are obliged to respect the fundamental rights of the human person. They will dispense justice humanely by respecting the rights of...
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Catechism of The Catholic Church #2207

2207 The family is the original cell of social life. It is the natural society in which husband and wife are called to give...
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Catechism of The Catholic Church #36

36 "Our holy mother, the Church, holds and teaches that God, the first principle and last end of all things, can be known with...
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Catechism of The Catholic Church #1949

1949 Called to beatitude but wounded by sin, man stands in need of salvation from God. Divine help comes to him in Christ through...