Pope Francis’ statements of late -- on solidarity with the poor, on the need for community and on refocusing the church’s energies away from a narrow focus on sexual issues -- may sound shocking to some. This is a much different tone than the image of the papacy in recent times. ….. In Paris Faber also encountered Ignatius of Loyola. He tutored Ignatius on Aristotelian philosophy while Ignatius formed Faber’s spirituality; under Ignatius’ guidance, Faber mastered the Spiritual Exercises. In 1534, he was ordained a priest and later that year on Aug. 15, he and six other men, including Ignatius and Francis Xavier, took vows as the first members of what became the Jesuit order. https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/francis-chronicles/pope-francis-and-peter-faber-kindred-jesuit-spirits

“Inigo, instead of feeling that his remorse was sent to drive him to the foot of the cross, persuaded himself that these inward reproaches proceeded not from God, but from the devil; and he resolved never more to think of his sins, to erase them from his memory, and bury them in eternal oblivion. Luther turned toward Christ, Loyola only fell upon himself. .... Visions came erelong to confirm Inigo in the convictions at which he had arrived .... Inigo did not seek truth in the Holy Scriptures; but imagined in their place immediate communication with the world of spirits. .... Luther on taking his doctor’s degree had pledged his oath to Holy Scripture . .... Loyola at his time, bound himself to dreams and visions; and chimerical apparitions became the principle of his life and his faith.”   J.H. Merle  D’Aubugine, D.D., History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, 5 Volumes in 1. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, reproduced from London 1846 edition in 1976, book 10,  http://text.egwwritings.org/publication.php?pubtype=Book&bookCode=HRSCV3&lang=en&collection=6&section=all&pagenumber=354

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/09/19/in-interview-pope-francis-sets-a-new-direction-for-the-church/?utm_term=.6775ddcd79b9

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Wednesday urged political leaders to make every effort to create jobs and said unemployment was caused by economic thinking “outside the bounds of social justice.” “I call on politicians to make every effort to relaunch the labor market,” the Argentine pope told thousands of followers at his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, which coincides with May Day demonstrations around the world. “Work is fundamental for dignity,” he said. “I think of labor market difficulties in various countries. I think of people, not just young people, who are unemployed often because of an economic conception of society based on selfish profit outside the bounds of social justice,” he said. As the former archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Bergoglio, Francis became a leading voice on the side of the dispossessed during his country’s devastating economic crisis.  http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/400559/pope-francis-calls-for-social-justice-against-unemployment

Within the Roman Catholic Church, Ultramontanism achieved victory over conciliarism at the First Vatican Council with the pronouncement of papal infallibility (the ability of the pope to define dogmas free from error ex cathedra) and of papal supremacy, i.e., supreme, full, immediate, and universal ordinary jurisdiction of the Pope. Other Christians not in full communion with Rome declared this as the triumph of what they termed "the heresy of Ultramontanism. http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Ultramontanism.html

Ferraris' ecclesiastical dictionary "The pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not a mere man, but as it were god, and the vicar of God." https://books.google.ca/books?id=iX4cmDeh5oEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Man is not a lost atom in a random universe: he is God's creature, whom God chose to endow with an immortal soul and whom he has always loved. Pope Benedict XVI CARITAS IN VERITATE  http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html#_edn70

366 The Church teaches that every spiritual soul … is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/what-happens-to-our-bodies-immediately-after-we-die

Pope Leo X who on Monday, December 19th, 1513 issued a Bull (Apostoloiciregimis) declaring:   "We do condemn and reprobate all who assert that the intelligent soul is mortal." "Damnamus et reprobamusomnesassertentesanimamintellectivammortalemess."   This bull was directed against the growing "heresy" of those who denied the natural immortality of the soul, and avowed the conditional immortality of man.

Dr. Martin Luther posted his Theses on October 31, 1517 in Wittenberg. In his 1520 published Defence of 41 of his propositions, Luther cited the pope's immortality declaration, as among "those monstrous opinions to be found in the Roman dunghill of decretals."  Martin Luther, Assertio Omnium Articulorum M. Lutheri per BullamLeonis X. NovissimamDamnatorum (Assertion of all the articles of M. Luther condemned by the latest Bull of Leo X.), article 27, Weimar edition of Luther's Works, Vol. 7, pp. 131,132. https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/955.394#398

Archbishop Francis Blackburne states: "Luther espoused the doctrine of the sleep of the soul, upon a Scripture foundation, and then he made use of it as a confutation of purgatory, and saint worship, and continued in that belief to the last moment of his life." Francis Blackbourne, Short Historical View of the Controversy Concerning an Intermediate State, 1765, p. 14.  https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/955.394#398

Tyndale pressed his contention even further showing that the papal teaching on the subject is in conflict with St. Paul: "`Nay, Paul, thou art unlearned; go to Master More, and learn a new way. We be not most miserable, though we rise not again; for our souls go to heaven as soon as we be dead, and are there in as great joy as Christ that is risen again.' And I marvel that Paul had not comforted the Thessalonians with that doctrine, if he had wist it, that the souls of their dead should rise again. If the souls be in heaven, in as great glory as the angels, after your doctrine, shew me what cause should be of the resurrection?"  William Tyndale, An Answer to Sir Thomas More's dialogue, Parker's 1850 reprint, Bk. 4, ch. 4, pp. 180,181. 

Tyndale pressed his contention even further showing that the papal teaching on the subject is in conflict with St. Paul: "`Nay, Paul, thou art unlearned; go to Master More, and learn a new way. We be not most miserable, though we rise not again; for our souls go to heaven as soon as we be dead, and are there in as great joy as Christ that is risen again.' And I marvel that Paul had not comforted the Thessalonians with that doctrine, if he had wist it, that the souls of their dead should rise again. If the souls be in heaven, in as great glory as the angels, after your doctrine, shew me what cause should be of the resurrection?"  William Tyndale, An Answer to Sir Thomas More's dialogue, Parker's 1850 reprint, Bk. 4, ch. 4, pp. 180,181.  http://biblelight.net/luther-tyndale.htm

“The Pope’s will stand for reason. He can dispense above the law; and of wrong make right, by correcting and changing laws.” Pope Nicholas, Dist.96, Quoted in “Facts for the Times.” pp 55,56. 1893. https://books.google.ca/books?id=CJkwAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SECOND EDITION 460 The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature":78 "For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God."79 "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God."80 "The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods."81 78 2 Pt 1:4. 79 St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 19, 1: PG 7/1, 939. 80 St. Athanasius, De inc. 54, 3: PG 25, 192B. 81 St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusc. 57, 1-4. http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p122a3p1.htm

Saint Thomas Aquinas   Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) lived at a critical juncture of western culture when the arrival of the Aristotelian corpus in Latin translation reopened the question of the relation between faith and reason, calling into question the modus vivendi that had obtained for centuries. …… The Catholic Church has over the centuries regularly and consistently reaffirmed the central importance of Thomas's work for understanding its teachings concerning the Christian revelation, and his close textual commentaries on Aristotle represent a cultural resource which is now receiving increased recognition.  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/

Natural Law in Thomas Aquinas: … By the high middle ages, two strains of interpretation dominated the natural law tradition. One, the “order of nature’” identified with the stoics and Ulpian, focused on the physical and biological structures given in nature as the source of morality. The other, the “order of reason” identified with Aristotle, Cicero, and Gaius, focused on the human capacity to discover in experience what befits human well being. St.Thomas accepted both………  The common understanding of the law is defined by St.Thomas as: “an ordinance of reason promulgated by competent authority for the sake of the common good” (I-II, q 90.a.4). (Richard M. Gula, Reason Informed by Faith, Paulist Press 1989, pp. Page 222Page 223   https://books.google.ca/books?id=M6ANfXCQgwkC&q=stoics+and+ulpian#v=onepage&q&f=false

René Descartes was a philosopher whose work, La géométrie, includes his application of algebra to geometry from which we now have Cartesian geometry. Descartes was educated at the Jesuit college of La Flèche in Anjou. He entered the college at the age of eight years, just a few months after the opening of the college in January 1604. He studied there until 1612, studying classics, logic and traditional Aristotelian philosophy.  http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Descartes.html

Descartes was a major figure in 17th-century continental rationalism, ….. He is perhaps best known for the philosophical statement "Cogito ergo sum" (French: Je pense, donc je suis; English: I think, therefore I am), found in part IV of Discourse on the Method https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes

Descartes' moral philosophy ….. he being a convinced rationalist, clearly estates that reason suffices us in the search for the goods we should seek, and for him, virtue consists in the correct reasoning that should guide our actions. …. In shifting the debate from "what is true" to "of what can I be certain?," Descartes shifted the authoritative guarantor of truth from God to Man (While traditional concept of "truth" implies an external authority, "certainty" instead relies on the judgement of the individual Man). In an anthropocentric revolution, Man is now raised to the level of a subject, an agent, an emancipated being equipped with autonomous reason. ….. the emancipation of man from Christian revelational truth and Church doctrine, a man that makes his own law and takes its own stand.[30][31][32]   In modernity, the guarantor of truth is not God anymore but Man, a "self-conscious shaper and guarantor" of his reality.[  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes

Descartes' moral philosophy ….. he being a convinced rationalist, clearly estates that reason suffices us in the search for the goods we should seek, and for him, virtue consists in the correct reasoning that should guide our actions. …. In shifting the debate from "what is true" to "of what can I be certain?," Descartes shifted the authoritative guarantor of truth from God to Man (While traditional concept of "truth" implies an external authority, "certainty" instead relies on the judgement of the individual Man). In an anthropocentric revolution, Man is now raised to the level of a subject, an agent, an emancipated being equipped with autonomous reason. ….. the emancipation of man from Christian revelational truth and Church doctrine, a man that makes his own law and takes its own stand.[30][31][32]   In modernity, the guarantor of truth is not God anymore but Man, a "self-conscious shaper and guarantor" of his reality.[  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes

Luther  believed that : human reason ‘is blind, deaf, senseless, godless and sacrilegious in its dealing with all God’s words and works . . ’ 2   1. L.W., Vol. 1. page 3. 2. MARTIN LUTHER, ON THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL, translated by J.I. Packer and O.R. Johnston, Westwood, N.J., Revell, 1957, p. 201.  https://answersingenesis.org/genesis/luther-on-evolution/

Richard M. Gula, The Way of Goodness and Holiness: A Spirituality for Pastoral Ministers (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2011), 331 pp.

  “In fact, Chardin is one of the most frequently quoted writers by leading New Age occultists.”2 2Gary Kah, En Route to Global Occupation (Lafayette, LA: Huntington House Publishers, 1992), p. 41.

“Teilhard dreamed of humanity merging into ‘God’ and each realizing his own godhood at the Omega point.  This belief has inspired many of today’s New Age leaders.”1  1Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon, The Seduction of Christianity: Spiritual Discernment in the Last Days (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1985), p. 80.  

“Teilhard dreamed of humanity merging into ‘God’ and each realizing his own godhood at the Omega point.  This belief has inspired many of today’s New Age leaders.”1 1Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon, The Seduction of Christianity: Spiritual Discernment in the Last Days (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1985), p. 80.  

“…a general convergence of religions upon a universal Christ who satisfies them all: that seems to me the only possible conversion of the world, and the only form in which a religion of the future can be conceived.” – de Chardin, P.T.  1971.  Christianity and Evolution.  Collins.  Pg. 130.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: His ideas went beyond the toleration expressed in non-overlapping magisteria, or the idea that religion and science need not conflict: Teilhard's union went far deeper than that. Rather, he believed that religion and evolution were inextricably linked, such that Christianity did not make sense without evolution. He first propounded the "Omega Point" theory - that mankind evolves towards Godhood, abetted by Jesus Christ, making evolution a theological as well as physical transition in forms. Amir D. Aczel, The Jesuit and the Skull. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin

Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi said in July 2009: “By now, no one would dream of saying that [Teilhard] is a heterodox author who shouldn’t be studied.” http://ncronline.org/news/pope-cites-teilhardian-vision-cosmos-living-host

“Dr. Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, and Chancellor of the United Nations' University For Peace, is the Chairperson of Peace Party 2000.” – http://robertmuller.org/lead/p01.html

“When asked to explain his prayers and hopes for the council, he simply went to a window and threw it open, letting the fresh breeze wafting into the room express his intentions in a single gesture.” http://akseac.com/2012/10/16/pope-john-xxiii-address-at-the-opening-of-vatican-council-ii/

CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH RESPONSES TO SOME QUESTIONS REGARDING CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE DOCTRINE ON THE CHURCH    RESPONSES TO THE QUESTIONS   FIRST QUESTION: Did the Second Vatican Council change the Catholic doctrine on the Church?   RESPONSE: The Second Vatican Council neither changed nor intended to change this doctrine, rather it developed, deepened and more fully explained it. This was exactly what John XXIII said at the beginning of the Council. Paul VI affirmed it and commented in the act of promulgating the Constitution Lumen gentium: “There is no better comment to make than to say that this promulgation really changes nothing of the traditional doctrine. What Christ willed, we also will. What was, still is. What the Church has taught down through the centuries, we also teach. In simple terms that which was assumed, is now explicit; that which was uncertain, is now clarified; that which was meditated upon, discussed and sometimes argued over, is now put together in one clear formulation”. (Vatican.va) http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070629_responsa-quaestiones_en.html

EDUCATION   "The world will not change and find peace if there is not a new education." -- U Thant, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, a teacher www.unol.org

EDUCATION   "The world will not change and find peace if there is not a new education." -- U Thant, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, a teacher www.unol.org

And it is the sense of personal separateness, imagining that one is utterly separate from all others, utterly different, that prevents one from becoming that inner god within. For by becoming that inner god you become consciously at one with the universe of which you are a child, an inseparable part; and that means drawing upon strength inexhaustible, wisdom without compass, drinking at the fountains of inspiration which flow from the heart of the universe. Every one is rooted in the common fountain of the cosmic life-intelligence-substance. Golden Precepts of Esotericism by G. de Purucker,  1979 by Theosophical University Press.  http://theosociety.org/pasadena/goldprec/gp-4.htm

The former director of the World Health Organization, Dr. Brock Chisolm stated:   “To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas…” 1 1The Christian World Report (March 1991, Vol. 3, No. 3), p. 8; Christian World Report (July 1989, Vol. 1, No. 5), p. 1.

Dietrich Bonnhoeffer “Through the call of Jesus  men become individuals. Willy-nilly, they are compelled to decide, and that decision can only be made by themselves. It is no choice of their own that makes them individuals: it is Christ who makes them individuals by calling them.. Every man is called separately, and must follow alone. But men are frightened of solitude, and they try to protect themselves by merging themselves in the society of their fellow-men and their material environment.” Dietrich Bonnhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, p. 105 https://books.google.ca/books?id=379qCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

The error that some are in danger of committing, is in giving to the mind and judgment of one man, or of a small group of men, the full measure of authority and influence that God has vested in His church, in the judgment and voice of the General Conference assembled to plan for the prosperity and advancement of His work.--Testimonies, Vol. 9, pp. 260, 261. {ChL 1.5} http://text.egwwritings.org/publication.php?pubtype=Book&bookCode=GW&lang=en&pagenumber=490

--It is dangerous work to invest men with authority to judge and rule their fellow men.  Not to you nor to any other man has been given power to control the actions of God's people, and the effort to do this must be no longer continued . Letter 290, 1907, pp. 2, 3 (Aug. 29, 1907). {ChL 33.4}   http://text.egwwritings.org/publication.php?pubtype=Book&bookCode=ChL&pagenumber=33&paragraphReferences=1

Karl Rahner, SJ (1904–1984) One of the most important theologians of the 20th century, Karl Rahner was born in March 1904. He was the fourth of seven children, the son of a local college professor and a devout Christian mother. In 1922 Karl followed his older brother Hugo and entered the Jesuit community. As a Jesuit novice Rahner was formed in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. This formation had a lasting influence on his spiritual and intellectual development.  http://www.ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian-voices/20th-century-ignatian-voices/karl-rahner-sj

The London Times wrote of Rinser (Karl Rahner’s Girlfriend at her death, “She remained a practicing Roman Catholic to the end of her days, but campaigned for abortion and against celibacy, as well as against the power of the priesthood. In spite of that, she counted among her personal friends Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ... She stood for the German Presidency in 1984 at the age of 73, as the Green Party’s candidate ... and campaigned in the West for the North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung.”   Rahner the Radical: Karl Rahner himself showed a similar maverick strain. Remaining “deeply rooted” in his own version of Catholicism, he undermined perennial Catholic truth at every turn. Unlike the great Father Denis Fahey, whose motto was “the world must conform to Our Lord, not He to it,” Rahner’s motto was effectively, “Our Lord must conform to the world, not it to Him.”                                              (Karl Rahner’s Girlfriend (by John Vennari) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1126324/posts#comment

Karl Rahner is undoubtedly the most important Roman Catholic theologian in the twentieth century. His seminal position among his contemporaries results to some extent from his ability to put theology and philosophy into dialogue.  http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/bce/rahner.htm

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The Vatican’s official foundational starting point is man himself.  Rome states:   “It is man himself who must be saved:  it is mankind that must be renewed.  It is man, therefore, who is the key to this discussion, man considered whole and entire, with body and soul, heart and conscience, mind and will.  This is the reason why this sacred Synod, in proclaiming the noble destiny of man and affirming an element of the divine in him, offers to co-operate unreservedly with mankind in fostering a sense of brotherhood to correspond to this destiny of theirs.”   Vatican II Documents No. 64, Gaudium et Spes, 7 Dec 1965 in Vatican Council II The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents, Austin P. Flannery, ed., 1981 edition (Northport, NY:  Costello Publ. Co. 1975) Para 3 http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_cons_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html

The Vatican’s official foundational starting point is man himself.  Rome states:   “It is man himself who must be saved:  it is mankind that must be renewed.  It is man, therefore, who is the key to this discussion, man considered whole and entire, with body and soul, heart and conscience, mind and will.  This is the reason why this sacred Synod, in proclaiming the noble destiny of man and affirming an element of the divine in him, offers to co-operate unreservedly with mankind in fostering a sense of brotherhood to correspond to this destiny of theirs.”    Vatican II Documents No. 64, Gaudium et Spes, 7 Dec 1965 in Vatican Council II The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents, Austin P. Flannery, ed., 1981 edition (Northport, NY:  Costello Publ. Co. 1975) Para 3 http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/justpeace/documents/rc_pc_justpeace_doc_20060526_compendio-dott-soc_en.html#INTRODUCTION

The Vatican’s official foundational starting point is man himself.  Rome states:   “It is man himself who must be saved:  it is mankind that must be renewed.  It is man, therefore, who is the key to this discussion, man considered whole and entire, with body and soul, heart and conscience, mind and will.  This is the reason why this sacred Synod, in proclaiming the noble destiny of man and affirming an element of the divine in him, offers to co-operate unreservedly with mankind in fostering a sense of brotherhood to correspond to this destiny of theirs.”    Vatican II Documents No. 64, Gaudium et Spes, 7 Dec 1965 in Vatican Council II The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents, Austin P. Flannery, ed., 1981 edition (Northport, NY:  Costello Publ. Co. 1975) Para 3

Vatican II and the Gospel Proclamation Fr. McBrien labels these ideas as belonging to the "change-agent" or "servant" model of the Church which stresses proclamation and praxis of the Gospel "by application of the Gospel to the struggle for social justice, peace, and human rights.”   "The Church's activities on behalf of social justice or human rights are not merely preparatory to the real mission of the Church, as the notion of 'preevangelization' had it before Vatican II . . . the Church's commitment to and involvement in, the struggle for social justice, peace, and human rights is an essential, or 'constitutive,' part of its mission.” Richard P. McBrien, Catholicism, Harper/Collins, NY, new edition 1994, p.725.  http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=2624

Israeli government sources claim Francis is apparently thinking of calling a meeting between leaders and faithful of the world’s three biggest monotheistic religions, in Rome, to launch a message of peace, countering violence and the use of God’s name to justify hatred and terrorist acts. The sources say the Pope announced his intentions during an Audience on April 30, but there was no mention of this in the communiqué the Holy See’s issued after the Audience.   President Shimon Peres of Israel “told the pope that there are people who use God’s name to justify terrorism” and religious leaders should “say out loud that God did not give anyone permission to kill their neighbor.” According to the information contained in a summary of the Audience received by the Israeli government, Francis told Peres he “whole-heartedly supported” his appeal against violence and that “he wanted to promote a meeting between religious leaders and faithful of the three major religions” founded by Abraham, “in Rome”. The aim would be to “make people see” that the religions “oppose violence and terrorism.” http://www.ucanews.com/news/israeli-sources-say-pope-plans-peace-meeting-between-abrahamic-religions/68380

Pope Francis urged members of all religions and those belonging to no church to unite to defend justice, peace and the environment and not allow the value of a person to be reduced to "what he produces and what he consumes". Francis, elected a week ago as the first non-European pope in 1,300 years, met leaders of non-Catholic Christian religions such as Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans and Methodists, and others including Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus. http://in.reuters.com/article/pope-idINDEE92J0AI20130320

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/13/justin-welby-pope-francis

 Francis is the first Jesuit pope and Welby is the first archbishop of Canterbury from the charismatic evangelical organisation HTB.   The Jesuits are older, more accomplished and more likely to survive the century…….    The fact his spiritual director is a Catholic Benedictine is probably a good sign of how he sees the churches working together: locally, spiritually and personally, not as organisations….  https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/13/justin-welby-pope-francis

The word charity comes from the Latin caritas which Jerome used to translate the word agape. In Paul's psalm of love (1 Corinthians 13) it is set forth as an innermost principle contrasted with prophecy and knowledge, faith and works, as the motive that determines the quality of the whole inner life, and gives value to all its activities. …  9. Almsgiving: With the growing legalism of the church and the prevalence of monastic ideals of morality, caritas came to mean the very opposite of Paul's agape--just "the giving of goods to feed the poor," which "without love profiteth nothing." At present, the word means either liberality to the poor, or tolerance in judging the actions of others, both qualities of love, but very inadequate to express its totality. http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/charity/

The word charity comes from the Latin caritas which Jerome used to translate the word agape. In Paul's psalm of love (1 Corinthians 13) it is set forth as an innermost principle contrasted with prophecy and knowledge, faith and works, as the motive that determines the quality of the whole inner life, and gives value to all its activities. …  9. Almsgiving: With the growing legalism of the church and the prevalence of monastic ideals of morality, caritas came to mean the very opposite of Paul's agape--just "the giving of goods to feed the poor," which "without love profiteth nothing." At present, the word means either liberality to the poor, or tolerance in judging the actions of others, both qualities of love, but very inadequate to express its totality. http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/charity/

ENCYCLICAL LETTER CARITAS IN VERITATE OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF BENEDICT XVI TO THE BISHOPS PRIESTS AND DEACONS MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS THE LAY FAITHFUL AND ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL ON INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHARITY AND TRUTH (vatican.va) Man's earthly activity, when inspired and sustained by charity, contributes to the building of the universal city of God, which is the goal of the history of the human family. In an increasingly globalized society, the common good and the effort to obtain it cannot fail to assume the dimensions of the whole human family, that is to say, the community of peoples and nations[5], in such a way as to shape the earthly city in unity and peace, rendering it to some degree an anticipation and a prefiguration of the undivided city of God. http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html#_edn70The Church teaches that every spiritual soul … is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death

This continual application to contemporary circumstances began with the Encyclical SollicitudoReiSocialis, with which the Servant of God Pope John Paul II chose to mark the twentieth anniversary of the publication of PopulorumProgressio. Until that time, only RerumNovarumhad been commemorated in this way. Now that a further twenty years have passed, I express my conviction that PopulorumProgressio deserves to be considered “the RerumNovarum of the present age”, shedding light upon humanity's journey towards unity. http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=45776#.V-HD9vlpGUk

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/archive2013.shtml

Most would accept that CST in its current form began with the encyclical RerumNovarum– “Of New Things” in 1891 and has continued until the present with Caritas in Veritate– “Charity in Truth” in 2009. Drawing upon the Old and New Testaments, its traditions and its knowledge of social and economic traditions around the world, the Church has produced a formidable body of principles by which social and economic activity can be judged. http://www.catholicsocialteaching.org.uk/principles/faqs/

Universal Destination of Goods The good things of the earth, the fruit of human labour and the benefits of trade are all gifts from God, which are intended to be for the good of all men and women. In PopulorumProgressio, Paul VI said: ‘“God intended the earth and all that it contains for the use of every human being and people. Thus, as all men follow justice and unite in charity, created goods should abound for them on a reasonable basis” (Gaudium et Spes, paragraph 69). All other rights whatsoever, including those of property and of free commerce, are to be subordinated to this principle. They should not hinder, but on the contrary, favour its application. It is a grave and urgent social duty to redirect them to their primary finality.’ PopulorumProgressio– “The Development of Peoples” (1967), paragraph 22, as found in The Social Agenda, paragraph 202; cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 2402. http://www.catholicsocialteaching.org.uk/principles/glossary/#Universal

Rerum Novarum 31. It cannot, however, be doubted that to attain the purpose we are treating of, not only the Church, but all human agencies, must concur. All who are concerned in the matter should be of one mind and according to their ability act together. It is with this, as with providence that governs the world; the results of causes do not usually take place save where all the causes cooperate. It is sufficient, therefore, to inquire what part the State should play in the work of remedy and relief. 32. By the State we here understand, not the particular form of government prevailing in this or that nation, but the State as rightly apprehended; that is to say, any government conformable in its institutions to right reason and natural law, and to those dictates of the divine wisdom which we have expounded in the encyclical On the Christian Constitution of the State.(26)  (RerumNovarum) http://w2.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html

 A State from which religion is banished can never be well regulated; and already perhaps more than is desirable is known of the nature and tendency of the so-called civil philosophy of life and morals. The Church of Christ is the true and sole teacher of virtue and guardian of morals. She it is who preserves in their purity the principles from which duties flow, and, by setting forth most urgent reasons for virtuous life, bids us not only to turn away from wicked deeds, but even to curb all movements of the mind that are opposed to reason, even though they be not carried out in action.   33. To wish the Church to be subject to the civil power in the exercise of her duty is a great folly and a sheer injustice. (On the Christian Constitution of the State) http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_01111885_immortale-dei_en.html

Im Schatten des Kriegsgetöses hat der G 20-Gipfel eine weitreichende Entscheidung getroffen: In Zukunft werden die Steuer-Daten jedes einzelnen Bürgers weltweit verfügbar gemacht. Vordergründig geht es um Steuerflucht. Tatsächlich geht es darum, dass die Staaten-Gemeinschaft die lückenlose Kontrolle über die finanziellen Verhältnisse jedes einzelnen Bürgers übernehmen wird. Der Gipfel markiert einen Meilenstein auf dem Weg zur umfassenden Enteignung der Bürger http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2013/09/07/g-20-gipfel-beschliesst-globalen-zugriff-auf-die-vermoegen-der-buerger/

In the shadow of war din of the G 20 summit has taken a far-reaching decision: In the future, the control data is made every citizen available worldwide. Superficially it comes to tax evasion. In fact, it is important that the community of states will take over complete control of the financial situation of every citizen. The summit marks a milestone on the road to comprehensive expropriation of citizens. http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2013/09/07/g-20-gipfel-beschliesst-globalen-zugriff-auf-die-vermoegen-der-buerger/

Common Good   The common good is the complete development of all the people of the world. John XXIII describes it as ‘the sum total of conditions of social living, whereby persons are enabled more fully and readily to achieve their own perfection.’ Mater et Magistra– “Mother and Teacher” (1961), paragraph 65 The common good also provides a balance against too strong an individualism by emphasising the social aspect of the human person. Authentic development is possible only if an individual interacts with and grows within a society. Thus each of us is required to work for the common good which includes all others within society. Even property of its nature also has a social aspect which is based on the law of the common purpose of goods. Gaudium et Spes– “The Joys and Hopes” (1965), paragraph 7 http://www.catholicsocialteaching.org.uk/principles/glossary/#Common

MATER ET MAGISTRA, ENCYCLICAL OF POPE JOHN XXIII, ON CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS, MAY 15, 1961   …… Mother and Teacher of all nations—such is the Catholic Church in the mind of her Founder, Jesus Christ; to hold the world in an embrace of love, that men, in every age, should find in her their own completeness in a higher order of living, and their ultimate salvation. She is "the pillar and ground of the truth." (1) To her was entrusted by her holy Founder the twofold task of giving life to her children and of teaching them and guiding them—both as individuals and as nations—with maternal care. Great is their dignity, a dignity which she has always guarded most zealously and held in the highest esteem. http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_xxiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_j-xxiii_enc_15051961_mater_en.html

“The true soldiers of the cross are mobilizing. the church is about to be clothed with a beauty that is beyond this world!" http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word/5396

This war is a battle for the hearts and minds of people. It is a spiritual war, and the weapons are spiritual, not carnal.  http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word/5396

Pope Francis has announced that he will begin a series of audience talks about the Church. He made the announcement during his weekly general audience yesterday, which began with the Pope getting drenched by a cloudburst as he rode through St Peter’s Square in an open Popemobile. The Pope said that “people today say, ‘Christ, yes; the Church, no,’ like they say, ‘I believe in God, but not in priests'”. Such a position does not make sense because “it is the Church that brings us Christ and brings us to God. The Church is the great family of God’s children.”   http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/05/30/gods-plan-is-to-unite-all-humanity-says-pope/

In September of the year 2000, leaders of 189 countries met at the United Nations in New York and endorsed the Millennium Declaration, a commitment to work together to build a safer, more prosperous and equitable world. 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger • Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people • Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education • Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling 3. Promote gender equality and empower women  www.un.org/millenniumgoals Issued by the UN Department of Public Information

4. Reduce child mortality 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases 7. Ensure environmental sustainability • Integrate principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse the loss of environmental resources • Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss 8. Develop a global partnership for development • Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system • Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt   www.un.org/millenniumgoals Issued by the UN Department of Public Information