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Catechism of the Catholic Church: Moral Judgments Related to Politics – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Catechism of the Catholic Church: Moral Judgments Related to Politics

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Catechism of the Catholic Church

Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph: 2246

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2246 It is a part of the Church’s mission “to pass moral judgments even in matters related to politics, whenever the fundamental rights of man or the salvation of souls requires it. The means, the only means, she may use are those which are in accord with the Gospel and the welfare of all men according to the diversity of times and circumstances.”⁵³

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST

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SECTION TWO: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

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CHAPTER TWO: YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF

Jesus said to his disciples: “Love one another even as I have loved you.”¹

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ARTICLE 4: THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.⁴ He was obedient to them.⁵ The Lord Jesus himself recalled the force of this “commandment of God.”⁶ The Apostle teaches: “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and mother,’ (This is the first commandment with a promise.) ‘that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth.”‘⁷

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IV. THE FAMILY AND THE KINGDOM

Notes for the above paragraph:

53 GS 76 § 5.

English Translation of the Cathechism of the Catholic Church for the United States of America © 1997, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.

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