P R A Y I N G W I T H T H E C H U R C H
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That the faithful who hold positions of responsibility in public life, may defend and promote the respect of human values in every situation.
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The Church, conscious of the imbalances existing between those who have the capacity to produce wealth and those who are left at the margin of progress, has insisted more and more upon the need to promote the authentic and integral development of the human person. In the service of the human family, the Church reaches out to all men and women without distinction, striving to build with them a civilization of love.
The faithful who hold positions of responsibility in public life are encouraged to have a firm grasp of the social doctrine of the Church and make it an integral part of their evangelizing mission. It gives them guidelines for action in favour of a balanced human development. Thus armed they can inspire and vivify civil society and initiate radical change of both mentality and structures in favour of the human person.
Human development is never a merely technical or economic question; it is fundamentally a human and moral question. The great moral challenge facing Asian nations and the international community in relation to development is to have the courage of taking imaginative and effective steps, with the leaven of the Gospel, to overcome both dehumanizing and the "over-development" which reduces the person to an economic unit in an ever more oppressive consumer network.
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