Catholic Social Teaching:

Global Solidarity         

“As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body so also Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.”

-1 Corinthians 12:12–13

We are all part of one human family-whatever our national, racial, religious, economic or ideological differences-and in an increasingly interconnected world, loving our neighbor has global dimensions.

“Let us remember Paul VI’s words: ‘For the Catholic Church, no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is far.’ Indeed, we are a single human family that is journeying on toward unity, making the most of solidarity and dialogue among peoples in the multiplicity of differences.”

-Pope Francis, Address to Participants in the Plenary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (May 24, 2013), quoting Paul VI’s homily for the closing of the Second Vatican Council