CCC 2244: Every institution is inspired, at least implicitly, by a vision of man and his destiny, from which it derives the point of reference for its judgment, its hierarchy of values, its line of conduct. Most societies have formed their institutions in the recognition of a certain preeminence of man over things. Only the divinely revealed religion has clearly recognized man's origin and destiny in God, the Creator and Redeemer. The Church invites political authorities to measure their judgments and decisions against this inspired truth about God and man:
Societies not recognizing this vision or rejecting it in the name of their independence from God are brought to seek their criteria and goal in themselves or to borrow them from some ideology. Since they do not admit that one can defend an objective criterion of good and evil, they arrogate to themselves an explicit or implicit totalitarian power over man and his destiny, as history shows.
- Catechism: Conflict between good and evil
- Catechism: Choice between good and evil
- Catechism: Triumph of good over evil
- Catechism: Knowledge of good and evil
- Catechism: Reason and the discernment of good and evil
- Catechism: Man’s struggle between good and evil
- Catechism: The tree of the knowledge of good and evil
- Catechism: Immorality of doing evil for the sake of obtaining the good
- Catechism: Freedom and the possibility of choosing between good and evil
- Catechism: God’s power of drawing good from evil
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