VI. Love For the Poor

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“In its various forms – material deprivation, unjust oppression, physical
and psychological illness and death – human misery is the obvious sign of the
inherited condition of frailty and need for salvation in which man finds
himself as a consequence of original sin. This misery elicited the compassion
of Christ the Savior, who willingly took it upon himself and identified himself
with the least of his brethren. Hence, those who are oppressed by poverty are
the object of a preferential love on the part of the Church which, since her
origin and in spite of the failings of many of her members, has not ceased to
work for their relief, defense, and liberation through numerous works of
charity which remain indispensable always and everywhere.”²⁴⁷

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team

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