The first recipient of the Church’s social doctrine is the Church community in its entire membership, because everyone has social responsibility that must be fulfilled the mission of St. Mary of the Knobs, St. Mary Navilleton and St. John the Baptism Starlight is to inform, form and transform our parishioners to take responsibility to implement the Catholic Social Teaching of Christ in the Church and the World.
“Love is (therefore) service that the Church
carries out in order to attend constantly
to man’s suffering and his needs, including
material needs.” Pope Benedict XVI –DCE
“Yet at the same time (the Church) cannot and must not
remain on the sidelines in the fight for justice.
she has to play her part through rational argument
and she has to awaken the spiritual energy
without which justice, which always demands sacrifice,
cannot prevail and prosper.” Pope Benedict XVI – DCE