I. What matters most?

1. All humans are equally invaluable.

2. Humans are social by nature.

3. Your liberties are not your rights.

4. We have human rights for what we are, not for what we do.

5. What applies to the individual person applies to the community of persons.

6. People need to pursue a common good.

7. The common good is not the common interest.

8. Individual and common good hinge on each other.

9. The common good is for the individual person, not contrariwise.

10. The principles of human dignity, association and common good are the basic principles.

11. Everyone should contribute to and benefit from the common good.

12. Helping others helps the helper.

13. Help only when help is needed.

14. More than care, we need someone who cares.

II. What is the role of the family in society?

15. Family is the first society.

16. Society depends on the family.

17. We are not the authors of marriage.

18. There is a right to marriage but not the right to dictate what marriage is.

19. Marriage is more than the sum of all marriages.

20. Marriage is a unique association.

21. Marriages deserve a social institution.

22. Families are the school of humanity.

23. Children have rights, but no one has the right to a child.

24. Families should exercise their autonomy.

25. Christian families continue the work of Christ in society.

III. Why must we work?

26. Work is neither a job nor toil.

27. Work is an exercise of the human dignity of the worker.

28. We need to work on something to exercise our dignity.

29. Work changes the worker, not only the world.

30. Workers are persons, not commodities.

31. Work changes society: social dimension.

32. Work is not a necessary evil, but a necessary good: a right.

33. Work is a duty.

34. Workers have a right to a decent salary.

35. Agreement is necessary but not sufficient for a fair salary.

36. Migrants should be treated as nationals.

37. Migrants have the right to reunite their families.

38. Women should work… because they are different.

39. Workers have the right to form unions

40. Some strikes might be licit

41. The purpose of business is the common good, not profit.

42. Business can and should be owned by the workers.

43. Competition can be constructive, not destructive.

44. Rest is a right, not a privilege.

45. Rest is an obligation, not just another option.

46. Rest can be a virtue.

47. Work is divine but rest is sacred.

48. Working we continue God’s creation.

49. Working we continue Christ’s redemption.

50. Working can be priestly, kingly and prophetic.

IV. How to use money?

51. Wealth is the result of work.

52. Money is only a means, not an end.

53. No one should ever be poor.

54. Money is not neutral. It is good and it is bad. 

55. What is mine is truly mine but not exclusively mine because all is for all. 

56. In extreme need one could help himself from the property of others but never steal.

57. Giving the poor what they need is not charity, not even generosity but merely justice.

58. Earn money honestly, spend it responsibly, save it prudentially, invest it wisely, donate it generously, receive it gratefully.

59. Profit is necessary but not sufficient.

60. Self interest is an insufficient basis for the foundation of the economy.

61. The liberal market creates intemperance (imo).

62. Consumerism, speculation, tax evasion and waste are social sins.

63. The rich should be cautious.

64. Love the poor preferentially with all your pocket.

V. What should governments do and not do?

65. The source of political authority lies on the people.

66. The political community is subordinated to the common good.

67. The role of the political community is to create conditions for people to develop integrally.

68. Welfare should follow subsidiarity.

69. Political authority must operate within the moral law.

70. The better world is the world with better people; not with better policies. (imo)

71. The people have the duty to contribute.

72. Some democracies help sometimes.

73. Democracy can degrade into the dictatorship of the majority.

74. The people contribute with obedience and disobedience.

75. The people have the right to protect themselves against their governments even with weapons.

76. Death penalty today is an unjust punishment.

77. Church and state must cooperate to pursue the common good.

78. Christian politicians and public servants are obliged to act with Christian conscience.

VI. How should we globalize together?

79. Globalization is the new sign of the times. (imo)

80. We are irresponsible globalizers.

81. God wants the whole globe to be one family.

82. Globalization is making us neighbors but not brothers.

83. Globalization needs to overcome the tribal mentality. (imo)

84. Globalization needs the right authorities but we don’t have them.

85. Countries have the right to protect themselves… even with “some” weapons.

86. Peace is not the absence of conflict but the fruit of integral development.

VII. How to care for the environment?

87. Nature is creation; a gifted fact, not only a given fact.

88. Everything is interconnected.

89. We are the only ecological solution; not the problem.

90. We are a part of nature, not apart from nature.

91. We must protect other species because we have duties, not because they have rights.

92. We need an ecological conversion.

VIII. Is technology really helping?

93. Technology is never neutral.

94. Technology is very good only if it attains its purpose.

95. Technology is more than technology.

96. Technology allures.

97. Technology deceives.

98. Technology changes us, not just the world.

99. We are mutating from technological societies into technocratic societies.

IX. Why the  Catholic Social Teachings?

a. The church suffers from four mental problems (imo).

b. The only purpose of the church is to continue the work of Christ.

c. The specific vocation of the laity is to continue the work of Christ in the world.

d. The laity are not the lowest rank in the hierarchy of the church.

e. The laity should integrate their faith and life.

f. God wants societies to develop.

g. The church has a social mission because God is love.

h. Social development is tied to the Kingdom of God.

i. Believing in heaven empowers us to work for social development.

j. We need to see and judge the signs of the times.

k. The church continuously updates her CST.

l. Implementing CST is evangelizing.

m. The church suffers and rejoices with the world.

n. The church must permeate society with the gospel.

o. The church has the right and duty to evangelize.

p. The expertise of the church is humanity, not technical matters.

q. The church cannot integrate faith and life without CST. END.