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 1    1,   1    |          The social concern of the Church, directed towards an authentic
 2    1,   1    |         the social doctrine of the Church. As a result, this doctrine,
 3    1,   1    |        builds up gradually, as the Church, in the fullness of the
 4    1,   3    |       value of the teaching of the Church.~This twofold dimension
 5    2,   5    |  continuity and renewal within the Church's social doctrine. The intention
 6    2,   6    |            the same concern of the Church which inspired the whole
 7    2,   6(8) |       Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium
 8    2,   7    |         the great tradition of the Church's social teaching, takes
 9    2,   7    |       awareness of the duty of the Church, as "an expert in humanity," "
10    2,   7    |   centuries - old tradition of the Church regarding the "universal
11    2,   8    |          authority of the Catholic Church and addressed both to the
12    2,   8    |          and addressed both to the Church herself and "to all people
13    2,   8    |          legitimate concern of the Church seen as a religious institution -
14    2,   8    |    legitimacy and necessity of the Church's intervention in this field.~
15    2,   8    |         the social doctrine of the Church has once more demonstrated
16    2,   8    |           In consequence, when the Church concerns herself with the "
17    2,   9    |         the social teaching of the Church had not yet reached the
18    2,  10    |         the social doctrine of the Church in its totality and to the
19    3,  12    |  decolonization. For her part, the Church felt the duty to deepen
20    3,  14    |          content, before which the Church, which is a "sacrament or
21    3,  14(32)|       Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, n. 1.~
22    3,  17(34)|        Your Homeless Brother?" The Church and the Housing Problem (
23    3,  18    |       justice and peace, which the Church proclaims and for which
24    3,  21    |         one of the reasons why the Church's social doctrine adopts
25    3,  26(48)|       Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium
26    4,  28(52)|       Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium
27    4,  31    |          to his body, which is the Church" ( Col.1.18 ; cf. Eph 1:
28    4,  31    |            reasons which impel the Church to concern herself with
29    4,  31    |                Some Fathers of the Church were inspired by this idea
30    4,  31(57)|       Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, n. 1.~
31    4,  31    |            ancient practice of the Church is her conviction that she
32    4,  31    |            in favor of superfluous church ornaments and costly furnishings
33    4,  31(60)|         used by the Fathers of the Church to describe the proper attitude
34    4,  32    |            it obliges the Catholic Church and the other Churches and
35    4,  33(62)|       Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium
36    4,  33(62)|          the basic reasons why the Church has always been opposed
37    5,  36(64)|       Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium
38    5,  36(65)|        1984), n. 16: "Whenever the Church speaks of situations of
39    5,  39    |           own evangelical duty the Church feels called to take her
40    5,  40    |           help, is the soul of the Church's vocation to be a "sacrament,"
41    5,  40    |            solidarity to which the Church calls us and which she tirelessly
42    5,  40    | development and peace. Many of the Church's canonized saints offer
43    6,  41    |                            41. The Church does not have technical
44    6,  41    |          his Encyclical.69 For the Church does not propose economic
45    6,  41    |    ministry in the world. ~But the Church is an "expert in humanity,"70
46    6,  41    |          to serve.~This is why the Church has something to say today,
47    6,  41    |           its way. In doing so the Church fulfills her mission to
48    6,  41    |            reaching this goal, the Church uses her social doctrine.
49    6,  41    |            action" proposed by the Church's teaching72 would be of
50    6,  41    |           essential dimension.~The Church's social doctrine is not
51    6,  41    |          light of faith and of the Church's tradition. Its main aim
52    6,  41    |           doctrine are part of the Church's evangelizing mission.
53    6,  41    |          which is an aspect of the Church's prophetic role. But it
54    6,  42    |         more than in the past, the Church's social doctrine must be
55    6,  42(73)|       Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium
56    6,  42    |         the whole tradition of the Church bears witness. It affects
57    6,  42(78)|       Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium
58    6,  44(81)|       Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium
59    7,  46    |   appropriately pointed out by the Church's Magisterium.83~It is fitting
60    7,  47    |            the present moment, the Church must strongly affirm the
61    7,  47    |       possibility are based on the Church's awareness of the divine
62    7,  47    |            the Kingdom of God.~The Church has confidence also in man,
63    7,  47(86)|       Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium
64    7,  47    |            the world about us. The Church too feels profoundly involved
65    7,  47    |          sons and daughters of the Church must serve as examples and
66    7,  47(88)|            the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions,
67    7,  48    |                            48. The Church well knows that no temporal
68    7,  49(90)|       Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, n. 58; John