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"... we see the emergence of groups pretending to speak on behalf of all Catholics by offering a very narrow version of our teachings, often reducing it for their own partisan aims.
...One of the council’s most illuminating passages on the role of the church in the modern world provides the inspiration that must inform each of us as we consider our contribution to today’s public debate:
“The Church, by reason of her role and competence, is not identified in any way with the political community nor bound to any political system. She is at once a sign and a safeguard of the transcendent character of the human person. The Church and the political community in their own fields are autonomous and independent from each other” (“Gaudium et Spes,” No. 76).
We must be willing to speak about all that pertains to the common good, which “would include the promotion and defense of ... goods such as public order and peace, freedom and equality, respect for human life and for the environment, justice and solidarity” (From the doctrinal note published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on Nov. 21, 2002, “The Participation of Catholics in Political Life”).