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Justice and charity have meanings that vary from one person to the next, from a specific time and place to another, and from the secular world to the sacred. Even a cursory review of the literature exposes the reader to a variety of meanings for the same word or term and a variety of words or terms with the same meaning.
Love for others, and in the first place love for the poor, in whom the church sees Christ himself, is made concrete in the promotion of justice. Justice will never be fully attained unless people see in the poor person, who is asking for help in order to survive, not an annoyance or a burden, but an opportunity for showing kindness and a chance for greater enrichment.
Centesimus Annus, chapter 6.
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O’Boyle, E.J. (1998). Justice and Charity: The Bulwark of Human Well-Being. In: Personalist Economics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6167-2_2
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