Principles of the Caritas in Veritate Foundation
With respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms, the Foundation promotes:
- • The dignity of the human person...
- Free and responsible.
- • The family…
- As the centre and source of social life, the first and vital cell of society.
- • Solidarity…
- Which binds all human beings together and makes us responsible to one another.
- • The common good…
- Based on a just international order, as the purpose driving all political and economic activity.
- • Subsidiarity…
- Which ensures the common good at all levels of society.
- • The value of human life…
- A firm commitment to protect all human life from its beginning to its end.
- • The value of human labour…
- The value of human labour rooted in the fulfilment of the worker as a person.
- • The universal destination of goods and private property…
- The necessary balance between private property and the universal destination of goods.
- • A preferential option…
- For the poor and the marginalized.