YOUCAT Lesson 433
YOUCAT the catechism
for Catholic youth
433 How should we treat property that belongs to everyone?
Vandalism and deliberately damaging public facilities and
common property are forms of theft, and restitution must be made. [2409]
Litter-Lasts-This-Long sign posted by
the US Forest Service at the Los Padres National Forest. ..... 433
“Every time you acquire and use an object, reflect that this
is a product of human work and that if you consume, destroy, or damage it, you
destroy that work and thus consume human life.”
Leo Tolstoy (1818-1910, Russian novelist)
[2409]
Respect for the goods of
others
2409 Even if it does not contradict the provisions of civil
law, any form of unjustly taking and keeping the property of others is against
the seventh commandment: thus, deliberate retention of goods lent or of objects
lost; business fraud; paying unjust wages; forcing up prices by taking
advantage of the ignorance or hardship of another. (Compare Deuteronomy 25:13-16; Deut 24:14-15; James 5:4; Amos 8:4-6.)192
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