28. The human community

28. THE HUMAN COMMUNITY
SEEKING AUTHENTIC HUMAN DEVELOPMENT , THE CHURCH PROMOTES SUBSIDIARITY, SOLIDARITY AND THE COMMON GOOD.
Compendium 401-414 1Peter 2:13-17
We can only find happiness in community. God is a community of Persons, Father, Son, Holy Spirit and all who are called to friendship with him. The human family is modeled on the Holy Trinity. The human person must be the principle, subject and end of social institutions.
SUBSIDIARITY: the family is the basic unit of society and must not be deprived of its fundamental authority by the State or higher institutions which must be at the service of the basic unit of society and the common good. There must be a priority of ethics over technology, and persons over things.
The Common Good is the sum of those conditions of social life which allow social groups and their members relatively thorough and ready access to their own fulfillment and must be sought using morally licit means. The dignity of each person especially the most vulnerable must be respected. Unjust or immoral laws are not binding. Solidarity requires that we must work for a more humane society with generous charity for the most needy because we are all created in God's image with a rational soul and are destined to share the same eternal happiness with him.