Reflection on Catholic Social Teaching

1. The call to global discipleship
Final reflection

2. “If you want justice, seek
peace” Pope Paul VI

3. The measure
of any
society
is how it treats
its weakest
members. JPII

4. “The needs of the poor take priority
over the desires of the rich” Economic
Justice For All

5. “Love demands a personal
commitment to the will of God”
JPII

7. “Whoever loses his life
for my sake will find
it.” Matt. 10:39

8. “An eye for an eye will make
the whole world blind.” Ghandi

9. “You must be the change you
wish to seek in the world.” Ghandi

10. “Blessed are the peacemakers...”
Matt 5:9

11. “Justice without force is
powerless…

12. …force without justice is tyrannical.”
” Pascal

13. “I say…love your enemies,
and pray for those who
persecute you…” Matt. 5:44

14. “The dead cannot cry out for justice;
it is a duty of the living to do so for
them.” Bujold

16. “Every human has
dignity.” John Paul II

17. “The world is full of
suffering…
it is also full of overcoming it.”
Helen Keller

19. “Where sin increased, grace
abounded all the more…” St. Paul

20. “Be not afraid…”
Psalm 3:25

21. “We are endowed by our
Creator with certain rights…”
Jefferson

22. Injustice is the
cause of much
suffering

23. “Not to enable
the poor to share
in our goods is
to steal from
them and
deprive them of
life.” St. John Chrysostom

24. “Evil prevails when
good people do
nothing.” Burke

25. I was angry at God and scolded
Him…
“God, I see injustice all around
me…

26. …people in poverty
…children starving
…people killing each
other

27. So, I asked Him,
“Why don’t you do
something about this?”

28. He replied,
“I did do something…

29. I made you!”