Call to Family, Community, and Participation

This catholic socail teaching teaches us that families are the center of our faith. The human person is sacred and family life should be suported by government. People have rights like to take part in society. Families have the right to seek the common good together and be active in our society. Dictionary.com say a family is a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not. Our faith tells us we need to protect human life and dignity.


"From the dignity of the human person, there also arises the right to carry on economic activities according to the degree of responsibility of which one is capable. Furthermore--and this must be specially emphasized--the worker has a right to a wage determined according to criterions of justice, and sufficient, therefore, n proportion to the available resources, to give the worker and his family a standard of living in keeping with the dignity of the human person. In this regard, Our Predecessor Pius XII said: "To the personal duty to work imposed by nature, there corresponds and follows the natural right of each individual to make of his work the means to provide for his own life and the lives of his children; so fundamental is the law of nature which commands man to preserve his life."

- Pacem in Terris: Peace on Earth

John XXIII, 1963

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