Catholic Social Teaching: 

Call to Family, Community and Participation

“Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaining. As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s varied grace.”

-1 Peter 4:8–10

All of us are social by nature and are called to live in community with others-our full human potential isn’t realized in solitude, but in community. How we organize our families, societies and communities directly affects our ability to achieve our full human potential.

“But God did not create man as a solitary, for from the beginning ‘male and female he created them’ (Gen. 1:27). Their companionship produces the primary form of interpersonal communion. For by his innermost nature man is a social being, and unless he relates himself to others he can neither live nor develop his potential.”

-Pope Paul VI, Gaudium et Spes, #12 (The Church in the Modern World)