330 EQUALITY OF MAN IN GOD'S SIGHT

YOUCAT Lesson 330

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330  To what extent are all men equal in God’s sight?

All men are equal in God’s sight insofar as all have the same Creator, all were created in the same image of God with a rational soul, and all have the same Redeemer.  [1934-1935, 1945]

 

Christ and the Rich Young Ruler, by Heinrich Hofmann.  Jesus illustrates to the rich ruler the meaning of “love neighbor” with the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). …..330

Because all men are equal in God’s sight, every person possesses the same dignity and has a claim to the same human rights.  Hence every kind of social, racist, sexist, cultural, or religious discrimination against a person is an unacceptable injustice.”

“God says, ‘ I have willed that one should need another and that all should be my ministers in distributing the graces and gifts they have received from me.’”  St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

“Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours.”  C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

“He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.”  Luke 3:11

“The Creator has inscribed on our being the ‘natural law’, which is the reflection in our hearts of his plan for creation, as the guide and inner standard for our life.”  Pope Benedict XVI, May 27, 2006

[1934-1935, 1945]

  

ARTICLE 3
SOCIAL JUSTICE

II. EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCES AMONG MEN

1934 Created in the image of the one God and equally endowed with rational souls, all men have the same nature and the same origin. Redeemed by the sacrifice of Christ, all are called to participate in the same divine beatitude: all therefore enjoy an equal dignity. –Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition

1935 The equality of men rests essentially on their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it: 

Every form of social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, color, social conditions, language, or religion must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God's design.( Gaudium et Spes 29 § 2.)⁴⁰ --CCC

IN BRIEF

  

1945 The equality of men concerns their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it. --CCC