Pentecost--Solidarity Reflections.
Paul VI clearly understood that the social question had become worldwide and he grasped the interconnection between the impetus towards the unification of humanity and the Christian ideal of a single family of peoples in solidarity 
and fraternity. In the notion of development, understood in human and Christian terms, he identified the heart of the Christian social message, and he proposed Christian charity as the principal force at the service of development.--Caritas in Veritate, #13
and fraternity. In the notion of development, understood in human and Christian terms, he identified the heart of the Christian social message, and he proposed Christian charity as the principal force at the service of development.--Caritas in Veritate, #13Action on behalf of justice and participation in the transformation of the world fully appear to us as a constitutive dimension of the preaching of the Gospel, or, in other words, of the Church’s mission for the redemption of the human race and its liberation from every oppressive situation.-- Justice in the World, #6
There are other obstacles to creation of a more just social order and to the development of world solidarity: nationalism and racism.--Populorum Progressio, #62
Today perhaps more than in the past, people are realizing that they are linked together by a common destiny, which is to be constructed together.--Solicitudo Rei Socialis, #26
We know in our hearts that we are called not only to be hearers of God’s word, but also doers. This Pentecost, may we feel the Spirit moving within us as we commit ourselves to advancing solidarity—working to shatter the personal and social barriers that obstruct the forming of community and one human family.—Education for Justice
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I think that the Social Justice committee could have given the title of Pope to Pope Paul VI. After all he did have that title. It is an honor of respect.
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