FRATELLI TUTTI
OF THE HOLY FATHER
FRANCIS
ON FRATERNITY AND SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER ONE
DARK CLOUDS OVER A CLOSED WORLD
LACKING A PLAN FOR EVERYONE
Insufficiently universal human rights
22. It frequently becomes clear that, in practice, human rights are not equal for all. Respect for those rights “is the preliminary condition for a country’s social and economic development. When the dignity of the human person is respected, and his or her rights recognized and guaranteed, creativity and interdependence thrive, and the creativity of the human personality is released through actions that further the common good”.[18] Yet, “by closely observing our contemporary societies, we see numerous contradictions that lead us to wonder whether the equal dignity of all human beings, solemnly proclaimed seventy years ago, is truly recognized, respected, protected and promoted in every situation. In today’s world, many forms of injustice persist, fed by reductive anthropological visions and by a profit-based economic model that does not hesitate to exploit, discard and even kill human beings. While one part of humanity lives in opulence, another part sees its own dignity denied, scorned or trampled upon, and its fundamental rights discarded or violated”.[19] What does this tell us about the equality of rights grounded in innate human dignity?
Remember when St. Peter attempted to walk on the water of the Sea of Galilee?
Bishop Patrick J. Zurek
socialist-catholics in fear put on the armor of “reductive anthropological visions” and gather together to exploit, discard and even kill human beings…
maga-catholics in fear put on the armor of “a profit-based economic model” and gather together to exploit, discard and even kill human beings...
comfortable catholics in fear put on the armor of “practical atheism,” by being indifferent to others and gather together to deny the existence of God’s presence in one’s neighbor…
Catholics in LOVE put on the armor of God and gather together under Jesus to ensure that “the dignity of the human person is respected, and his or her rights recognized and guaranteed, (in order that) creativity and interdependence thrive, and the creativity of the human personality is released through actions that further the common good”.[18]!!!
Today’s Scriptures
Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm
against the tactics of the Devil.
EPH 6:11
R. (1b) Blessed be the Lord, my Rock!
Blessed be the LORD, my rock,
who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war.
144:1B
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you,
how many times I yearned to gather your children together
as a hen gathers her brood under her wings,
but you were unwilling!”
LK 13:34
Catholic Bicycle 