Pier Giorgio Frassati and Social Justice

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 26 October 2014

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Is the Catholic Church a proponent of social justice? Yes, according to this week's readings. They reveal a compassionate God, who hears the cries of the poor and then encourages us to reciprocate his love. Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati understood this well. The young saint heeded both of Jesus' Great Commandments by loving God and, therefore, loving his neighbor.

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0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George. I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:08.9	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire. Word on
0:13.7	Fire Catholic Ministries is a non-profit ministry at the forefront of Catholic evangelization
0:18.8	using new media to spread the faith and every continent. Father Barron challenges us to
0:23.5	open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's Word of Love for each of us. If our
0:28.5	hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us so that we might speak with love about the
0:34.2	one who is love. The global benefactors of Word on Fire with the support of the Archdiocese of
0:39.1	Chicago now present Word on Fire. Peace be with you. Friends, it's too bad that in some Catholic
0:49.7	circles, social justice has gotten a bad name. Now, I get, you know, why? That it's been distorted in
0:58.5	the years after the council, turning into a code for hyper-left-wing political programs. And
1:04.5	it's very important to say that church is not committed to left-wing right-wing. It just
1:09.6	isn't. That's not the church's concern. However, social justice for one of a better term does indeed
1:17.1	stand at the heart of biblical religion. I mean, how are you instantiated? That's the left right
1:21.9	thing and people of goodwill can disagree. But social justice stands at the heart of biblical religion
1:28.9	and is found its way quite properly into the heart of the Catholic tradition. There's no debate
1:35.5	about that. Is that like, oh, you're a social justice Catholic? I'm not. No, no, to be a Catholic
1:41.7	is to be committed to social justice, period. I know I've quoted to you before some of these
1:48.4	really breathtaking remarks of saints and popes. The Pope Leo the 13th in Rhaim,
1:55.8	Navarim says, once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met in your life,
2:04.9	the rest of your money belongs to the poor. Let that sink in sometime. So necessity and even
2:12.5	propriety, and that's, you know, I know somewhat flexible term. But once those two have been met
2:18.1	in your life, everything else that you have belongs to the poor. St. John, Christmastim said,
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