People don’t live isolated. We need each other and we are all really responsible for all. That is why it’s something natural to relate with other people and to create institutions to live socially. Because of that, social life is composed of different institutions of all kind:

The political community, the social tissue, can be organized in different ways. Although the Catholic Church does not identify itself with any of these forms, it considers some of them unacceptable because they don’t respect the person’s dignity. Social Doctrine considers the democracy as the better way to organize political life.

Participation is the essential and central element of democracy. There is no true democracy without participation. Every democracy has to be participatory. The participation in political life is an expression of what human being is, of its dignity and responsibility for others and for the common good.

A social life without ethic values is like a flower withering. Social Doctrine considers four values as central and fundamentals for life and political action: Truth, justice, liberty and, carrying all of them, love, the political charity. To live those values leads us to self-fulfillment and to a more human social coexistence.

A social life without ethic values is like a flower withering. Social Doctrine considers four values as central and fundamentals for life and political action: Truth, justice, liberty and, carrying all of them, love, the political charity. To live those values leads us to self-fulfillment and to a more human social coexistence.

Did you ever heard the sentence “The church shouldn’t talk about those subjects”? Let’s see how the Social Doctrine understands the relationship between the Catholic Church and the political community. If we want a real democracy, it must receive and welcome the plurality of worldviews, ideologies and value systems that exist in society.