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The Church has consistently affirmed that workers possess inherent dignity and rights, including fair wages, safe conditions, and the freedom to organise. Rerum Novarum establishes that labour is not a commodity but an expression of human dignity.
Technology must serve the human person, not replace or diminish them. The Church calls for AI development guided by respect for human dignity, the common good, and the preferential option for the poor.
Subsidiarity holds that decisions should be made at the lowest competent level of society. Higher authorities should support, not supplant, lower communities — enabling families, parishes, and local institutions to flourish.
Laudato Si' frames care for creation as an integral part of justice. The earth is a common home entrusted to all humanity, and degrading it harms the poor most acutely — making ecological concern inseparable from social concern.
Catholic social teaching affirms the universal destination of goods: the earth's resources belong to all humanity. While private property is legitimate, its use carries a social mortgage obliging owners to consider the needs of others.
The Church has consistently affirmed that workers possess inherent dignity and rights, including fair wages, safe conditions, and the freedom to organise. Rerum Novarum establishes that labour is not a commodity but an expression of human dignity.
Technology must serve the human person, not replace or diminish them. The Church calls for AI development guided by respect for human dignity, the common good, and the preferential option for the poor.
Subsidiarity holds that decisions should be made at the lowest competent level of society. Higher authorities should support, not supplant, lower communities — enabling families, parishes, and local institutions to flourish.
Laudato Si' frames care for creation as an integral part of justice. The earth is a common home entrusted to all humanity, and degrading it harms the poor most acutely — making ecological concern inseparable from social concern.
Catholic social teaching affirms the universal destination of goods: the earth's resources belong to all humanity. While private property is legitimate, its use carries a social mortgage obliging owners to consider the needs of others.