Dear Representatives & Senators,
Please note that, at his request, this email is NOT being sent to State Representative Steve Santarsiero (With Catholics making up 66.3% of Bucks County, it is incredible that Rep. Santarsiero is so willing to turn a blatant deaf ear to his constituents.). Whether or not our elected officials are Catholic, don't they want to know what our Church teaches about our roles in the social & political spheres? As per Chapter 12 of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church,
- “'It belongs to the layman, without waiting passively for orders and directives, to take the initiative freely and to infuse a Christian spirit into the mentality, customs, laws and structures of the community in which they live' [Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 81: AAS 59 (1967), 296-297.]....
"With special reference to local realities, the Bishop is responsible for promoting the teaching and diffusion of the Church's social doctrine....
"The essential characteristic of the lay faithful who work in the Lord's vineyard (cf. Mt 20:1-16) is the secular nature of their Christian discipleship, which is carried out precisely in the world....
"The lay faithful should act according to the dictates of prudence, the virtue that makes it possible to discern the true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means for achieving it....
“Promoting human dignity implies above all affirming the inviolability of the right to life, from conception to natural death, the first among all rights and the condition for all other rights of the person[Cf. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction Donum Vitae, (22 February 1987): AAS 80 (1988), 70-102.]….
"In the present cultural context, there is a particularly urgent need to defend marriage and the family, which can be adequately met only if one is convinced of the unique & singular value of these two realities for an authentic development of human society[Cf. John Paul II, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio, 42-48: AAS 74 (1982), 134-140.]….
“When the religious dimension of the person or of a people is denied, culture itself starts to die off, sometimes disappearing completely….
“Faced with the many situations involving fundamental and indispensable moral duties, it must be remembered that Christian witness is to be considered a fundamental obligation that can even lead to the sacrificing of one's life....
“to deny the basis of a natural morality….is the harbinger of a moral anarchy with the obvious consequence of the stronger prevailing over the weaker….it undermines the very foundations of human society"
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