YOUCAT Lesson 322
YOUCAT the catechism for Catholic youth
322 What is more important,
society or the individual?
Saint Peter’s Square fountain. The image of God is in every human being.
…..322
Society can never be more important than the individual
person. Men may never be means to a
societal end. Nevertheless, social
institutions such as the State and the family are necessary for the individual;
they even correspond to his nature.
”Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved,
each of us is necessary.” Pope Benedict
XVI at his inauguration
1881, 1892
THE PERSON AND SOCIETY
I. THE COMMUNAL CHARACTER OF THE HUMAN VOCATION
1881 Each community is defined by its
purpose and consequently obeys specific rules; but "the human person . . . is and
ought to be the principle, the subject and the end of all social
institutions."( Gaudium et Spes 25 § 1. )4
1892 "The human person
. . . is and ought to be the principle, the subject, and the object
of every social organization" (GS 25 § 1).
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