Week 17: Rights & Responsibilities

This section seeks to raise a greater awareness and understanding of the Church’s deep moral and social doctrine.

Solidarity
The denial or the limitation of human rights - as for example the right to religious freedom, the right to share in the building of society, the freedom to organize and to form unions, or to take initiatives in economic matters - do these not impoverish the human person as much as, if not more than, the deprivation of material goods?
St. Pope John Paul II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, § 15, December 30, 1987