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How does Our Understanding of Human Dignity Affect The Way That We Live…

- - - - Human Dignity
        We are created in the image of God to know, love, and serve Him, and to offer Him praise. Every human life is sacred and deserves to be respected. All other social teachings build on this important truth.
      - Community and the Common Good
        To be human is to belong to our family, community, and society. No matter how we differ, we are one human family. we are connected, and we respect and help one another. The communities we belong to help make us who we are. Therefor, the better they are, the better they help us to be. For that reason, we need to work for the good of these communities-our families, schools, neighborhoods, and parishes. This is what we mean by working for the common good.
      - Solidarity
        We have a responsibility to respect and protect the rights of all people. We fulfill this responsibility when we support human dignity and develop healthy communities.
      - Rights and Responsibilities We are accountable to God to become what God created and calls us to be. We are accountable to the common good of our various communities. These are our responsibilities. We also have rights to have what we need in order to fulfill our responsibilities. Those rights are rooted to our responsibilities.
      - Stewardship of Creations
        We respect God by respecting His creation. We are made in God's image to do his Work as managers or stewards of creation. God calls us to care for and protect creation.
      - Participation in Society
        Everyone has a right to participate in his or her society and community. People and groups should not be excluded unfairly. We all want to contribute to the way that our society develops and grows.
      - Care for People Who Are Poor and Vulnerable
        Because every person has dignity, we have a social responsibility to defend, protect, and care for those who are, in any sense, poor or vulnerable.
      - Dignity of Work
        Human dignity includes the right to work. We all have the right to useful work, fair wages, and safe working conditions. We also the responsibility to protect the dignity workers and their right to work, fair wages, and safe working conditions.
      - Peace
        Peace is the result of social justice. Peace depends on respect for human dignity of all people, as well as mutual respect, cooperation, and participation among all peoples and nations in God's creation.
  - - - Dignity
        The human person is the clearest reflection of God's presence in our world; all of the Church's work in pursuit of both justice and peace is designed to protect and promote the dignity of every person.
      - Encyclicals
        We have responsibilities to God and to one another.The Church helps us grow in faith, and it helps us make wise choices and take action for the dignity and common good of all people.
      - Contributing Unselfishly to Our Communities
        The common good is the good we get from being part of a community. think of a baseball or soccer team. When the team members act unselfishly, do what is best for their team, and discipline themselves so they can carry out their particular roles, the result is a good (and perhaps winning) team. It is the kind of good you can not get by yourself! So when we talk about working for the common good in the world, it means contributing unselfishly to our communities so that everyone's life can be satisfying and joyful.
  - - - This morning, you woke up, got dressed, ate breakfast and went to school. But did you know that you were also exercising your rights? You have rights to the necessities of life such as safety, food water etc. Not every child has the same opportunities as Canadian children. Sometimes human rights are not respected or upheld. Imagine being told that you could not attend school because you are a girl or because you have to work. In some countries, girls are not allowed to go to school and children your age cannot go because you must work long hours to help support their families. Imagine being really sick or dying from a disease that a simple vaccination or antibiotic could have prevented or cured. Imagine having to walk miles every day just to get clean water to drink. It makes us want to yell, "NO FAIR!" because it isn't fair or just, and it wasn't part of God's plan.
      - In God's plan, every human is entitled to the many rights that support human dignity; life, health, rest, education, and safety. These rights help us become the person God made us to be. Each of us has a right to these necessities, but we also have a responsibility to ensure the rights of all people. Each of us are connected to God and each other. This means our actions to not affect just us, we have duties to God and to one another.text
      - Faith facts
        Social sin happens when a community oppresses people, direspects human dignity, or treats individuals unfairly. When we recognize social sin, we are called to act for justice and the common good.