Common Good and community
The human person is both sacred and social. We realize our dignity and rights in relationship with others, in community. Human beings grow and achieve fulfilment in community. Human dignity can only be realized and protected in the context of relationships with the wider society.
Option for the Poor
The moral test of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. The poor have the most urgent moral claim on the conscience of the nation. We are called to look at public policy decisions in terms of how they affect the poor.
The option for the poor is an essential part of society's effort to achieve the common good. A healthy community can be achieved only if its members give special attention to those with special needs, to those who are poor and on the margins of society
Questions
1. Give an example of a community that you are part of.
• I’m a part of a tennis group.
2. How is this community both Sacred and Social
• This group is scared as we all enjoy palying together and the sport and just have fun with each other and at the same time learn new skills.
3. What is the major test of a moral society?
• The major test of a moral society is how it treats its most vulnerable member’s; the poor.
4. In what way does our community look after the poor?
• At mass we have the poor donation, that we donate, and we also have the Matthew Talbot Hostel, in which volunteers travel in the vans that travel around the city at night giving the poor cookies and coffee. We have the St Vincent De Paul Society in which people donate their clothes and possessions that they don’t want anymore, that get passed onto the poor.
The human person is both sacred and social. We realize our dignity and rights in relationship with others, in community. Human beings grow and achieve fulfilment in community. Human dignity can only be realized and protected in the context of relationships with the wider society.
Option for the Poor
The moral test of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. The poor have the most urgent moral claim on the conscience of the nation. We are called to look at public policy decisions in terms of how they affect the poor.
The option for the poor is an essential part of society's effort to achieve the common good. A healthy community can be achieved only if its members give special attention to those with special needs, to those who are poor and on the margins of society
Questions
1. Give an example of a community that you are part of.
• I’m a part of a tennis group.
2. How is this community both Sacred and Social
• This group is scared as we all enjoy palying together and the sport and just have fun with each other and at the same time learn new skills.
3. What is the major test of a moral society?
• The major test of a moral society is how it treats its most vulnerable member’s; the poor.
4. In what way does our community look after the poor?
• At mass we have the poor donation, that we donate, and we also have the Matthew Talbot Hostel, in which volunteers travel in the vans that travel around the city at night giving the poor cookies and coffee. We have the St Vincent De Paul Society in which people donate their clothes and possessions that they don’t want anymore, that get passed onto the poor.
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