Ten Building Blocks of Catholic Social Teaching

Submitted by Chris Chatteris SJ on 31 March 2009 - 5:28pm

This article by Fr William Byron SJ would serve as useful background reading for South Africans seeking guidance on how to vote in the upcoming elections.

Principles, once internalized, lead to something. They prompt activity, impel motion, direct choices. A principled person always has a place to stand, knows where he or she is coming from and likely to end up. Principles always lead the person who possesses them some­where, for some purpose, to do something, or choose not to.

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www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=11432

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