While some of what price is to be me completely from the atheist side, I can not pass up this statement of principles that Don Samuel Ruiz made in this text taken from the Historical Archives of the National Mediation Commission in its digital version.
pastoral exhortation
HIS EXCELLENCY . And SVR. SR. DR.
D.SAMUEL RUIZ GARCIA,
CHIAPAS BISHOP
To all the faithful of the Diocese.
Dear children:
I. A serious threat:
Because proximity of a storm is anticipated and announced herself with the black clouds, the wind and lightning, and now on the world and our country the threat of a storm sweeping is being advertised with the clouds of hatred, injustice and lightning storms of a moral derangement, where they mix the crimes, mistakes and general disorientation.
This corner of the republic, not without agitation, more devoid of strong Diocese other organizations, with a precarious number of priests who defended the wolf into the fold of the Lord with a situation social injustice more acutely than elsewhere, with an invidious racial discrimination, with a contemptuous attitude toward the Sacrament of Marriage with the prevailing confusion in the educated classes, is easy prey humanly speaking of the avalanche that trying to overthrow everything.
II. Obligation Pastor:
floating in the atmosphere feel the desire of our diocese to hear the voice of the Shepherd to guide them in such anxious moments, which is consistent with our duty to Pastor beautifully stated by the Apostle S. Paul when he recommended to Timothy: "I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and his coming and his kingdom: preach the word calls for time and out of season, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and rebukes by continuing in the teaching (2 Tim. 4 et seq.) and obligation to teach and preach our most urgent sense, the more we see that match the distressed circumstances that caused the board of S. Paul, for now fulfilled what he said, "... desires to themselves teachers take on teachers ... and deflect their ears from the truth ..." (2 Tim. 4.3)
behind a doctrine that takes the banner of social justice, Communism has been infiltrated by wielding the ancient weapon of falsehood, hypocrisy, deceit and slander, having achieved many look at the hammer and sickle as a symbol of freedom and social redemption, without perceiving the red background of countless sins and crimes that this destructive tax system has been placed where its oppressive grip or BLACK background of his true doctrine, based on the denial of God, denies everything accordingly to the leads: Religion, freedom, human spirituality, the concept of good and evil, the very idea of justice, the notion of moral conscience, no repair to justify and defend as good and anything required leading to the final goal is to stop state where the history of mankind, ie, the state supreme arbiter in a dream that economic equality, distribute fees and charges, and benefits offices, ideas and instructions, work and bread to the members of what can not be called even a communist society, because this name can not be where there is no authority but despotism, or subjects, but mere cogs in a state machine.
What else can you expect from an ideology that not only deny God, but is determined to destroy the souls the very idea of \u200b\u200bGod? Can a system that puts as a basis for structuring the surprising claim that no more reality than matter, bring happiness to man, if it is considered within the system as an animal, either the most noble, whose only requirement would be to have full stomach? Will it justice and equity where there exists only the consideration of economic laws? Will there be social balance when judged only way to establish order, triggering class hatred and encouraging disorder, retaliation and crime?.
But we should not forget that Communism is rigidly logical and consistent with its principles, and imposes order and the only language that an animal-man-can understand: the language of force.
III. Catholic Obligation:
light of the observation of these facts, the ever-Catholic and less now, "is content to observe and contemplate with lamentations and ineffective critical development of events, but must act presence in this battle without boundaries, with real weapons, weapons of the spirit.
David was an inexperienced youngster Goliath and a huge warrior who intimidated the soldiers of Saul, but God put his arm strength of David. No won with sword or spear, but in the name of the Lord (I Sam. 17) It seems that today history repeats itself. Insulting a powerful enemy, destroy, burn. In its wake devastating nations have fallen and trained with the spoils of their victims a formidable empire where the terror, hunger, lack of freedom and above all, the official absence of God, these things mentioned, can not make us understand the tragic significance. Before this enemy appears weak, a Church which has no nuclear weapons, consisting mainly of poor people, with an organization that is far from anything military, with a force that despises the enemy, as Goliath the slingshot of David.
But his strength is his strength, the strength of God. And the crossroads that the Church has been through in the span of twenty centuries of existence, are clear signs that current will always be the words of its founder: "I am with you always until the end of time" (Mt . 28.20). While the presence of Christ in the history of the Church is not synonymous with inactivity.
Four media main act, among many others, we bring to our dear children in these fateful moments:
a. PRAYER: Now that we have been convinced that God is our salvation, even within the field of history, our primary concern is to make-whether it is the phrase "pressure to heaven. If the removal of God and the pride of mankind today have led to failure of the man who conquered space, but is inept to solve the vital issues that concern their living together, the closer to God by prayer, and bring us inner peace that comes from the line of duty, such as peace in human relationships. For although God knows on any of this century, wanted to make the granting of many things to our prayers, to which Christ promised infallible performance by saying, "if anything ask the Father, I grant it for myself" (Jn. 16, 24).
The efficacy of prayer increased when individual prayer becomes communal prayer, because Christ promised the latter, more than efficiency, his special presence "... wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there am I with them "(Mt 18, 20).
particular spiritual feel joy in recommending to our children to pray the family Rosary, which as deep David, Diocesan cross imposing a channel added to the National Campaign and the Americas, overthrow undoubtedly the Modern Goliath, who fall at the feet of the Gospel.
is to say that our prayer should include our enemies, who fooled around, pressed other, perhaps well-intentioned some special need supernatural help to get out of the category of enemies God of the Church that have been placed.
Moreover, it is well known that our prayer in any way preclude our responsibility to act according to divine will, as Jesus himself warns us not to seriously find the Kingdom of Heaven who claims the Lord! Lord! But keep the commandments.
b. ILLUSTRATION: People who naively had thought that is embraced communism when the stomach is empty, should recognize that currently, not only in our Homeland, the land of conquest and the impact force is formed by students rather than workers or peasants.
The struggle has arisen in the realm of ideas. Thus the Catholic, by the following chapter, is more liable to what is still to have a minimum flow of religious instruction that goes beyond what is strictly necessary and should be extended to the Church's social doctrine, at least to most important guidelines.
We are not in the brevity of this pastoral exhortation, elongated in the development of this doctrine, for we make it more widely within a short time, we settle for now to recall how Catholicism, from the existence of God and the revelation of knowledge that can give us down here, 'a concept the human person and dignity that is central to the structuring of human society. This concept, nor is the concept of capitalism that makes man a way to higher profits, nor that of Communism that makes it a complicated piece of gear, for utility and service which is exclusively for the individual. Catholicism affirms the value of the individual and the individual as something which by its origin and destination, is above any other being of the natural world.
Man is created by God, is the work of their hands, because although secondary causes providential hand led her to give reason for the formation of the body, the soul that shines by its attributes spiritual, essentially independent of matter, is not the result of physical or chemical forces, but the result of a creative act.
And if this were not enough not satisfied his Maker with a destination set you as a bodily and spiritual nature, but it rose above the demands of his being as the sublime dignity as children of God, giving, in his infinite mercy and love, the right to possess and enjoy without limits with the contemplation of the Trinity. Recovery in Christ, of that lost treasure, more elevated in human nature because it had been assumed by Christ in the Incarnation.
Whence it follows that is not age, not their qualities, not their income or their ability to work, that shows us the value of man, but his spiritual being, the independence of matter and its dependence on Divine Likeness of God and affiliation sanctifying grace divine.
already seen that these principles lead to the acceptance of substantial equality and inequality of men accidental. God created man, he has received from the human nature is essentially the same, whatever their race or language, and placed in the visible creation, humanity all the same maker gives the power to dominate over visible creation. But the law, which, in principle, all men would have to possession of all, is conditioned by the physical, intellectual and moral possessed in varying degrees by individuals.
The demand to live in society, in which men are joining efforts for the enforcement of the common good, provides other differences social functions that the individual has to exercise and hierarchy required by the order.
These diversities and differences noted, cause according to the nature of man, differences in the distribution of goods, provided that the inequalities physical, intellectual and moral men translate into different capacity acquisition and compensation indiversa economic. But if the acquisition of goods without leaving the channels of commutative justice would bring stark differences, social justice, human dignity based on the one hand and Christian love the other, require that these differences are tempered. Failure to recognize more title to the property have the purchasing power of the job, what would the disabled and unfit for example?
may be also a weak legal regime in which directly or indirectly, but wrongfully, is favored some more than others. In this case, that is the capitalist system and laws inspired by the French Revolution to the breath of liberalism, requires a review of the legal system, modifying it to enable them all without preference classes, aim for a minimum of social welfare to enable them to live according to human dignity.
Al be the case that inequality of property is differentiated abused by evil men and the oppression of the strong over the weak, it is clear that social justice is incompaginable with such abuses that under no circumstances must exist and should be punished.
The Church was instituted by Christ to provide or implement any particular economic system or ideology is bound in a particular scheme, but for the purpose afterlife where it leads men have something to say always that the dignity of man is despised, or even more, when it is threatened by the roots of true happiness that God has intended. The Church has not only the right but the duty to teach the truth and condemn the error of all those realities that cut across his saving mission.
When the Church condemnation, as it has done, to Communism and states that are not member of those who accept their ideology, propagated in some way, give your name to the party, read, retain or disseminate communist journals, to do so because they speak to distribute wealth more equitably or because they advocate an economic system as such, the Church declares emphatically that communism as a philosophical system is wrong to deny the existence of God, moral, religion, spirituality of the soul and all that with these truths is attached, the Church claims that the political-economic system than Communism and the means to supplant it uses are in conflict with the true freedom, justice and morality. And just as the capitalist system fails a man whose conception is an instrument of profit, and that liberal law on the pretext of protecting human freedom, not repress the abuses of the powerful over the weak.
c. ACTIVE PRESENCE: The Catholic, in addition to having clear and sufficient knowledge of this doctrine so succinctly stated, is to work to put it into practice in their relationships.
dogmatic and moral truths, unlike claims scientific subject requiring a position of our will and conformity of our conduct to them.
Greater responsibility, therefore, has the Catholic who deliberately fed around him a situation of social injustice. Reprehensible injustice is subhuman wages paid many who wish to be considered as Catholics online. Reprehensible injustice is the abuse of the lender which yield more than the sums of money interests that the shortage does ask the underdog. The reprehensible injustice is the deceiver than distant and vague promises advantage of the ignorance and poverty that exploits craves a piece of land to have to put in their mouths. Reprehensible injustice and contempt, but still, deception and theft committed with our indigenous children suffered. Reprehensible injustice is a way of life of slavery point unless they lie neglected in many places our farmers, who are condemned to work on behalf of employers for a petty unjust pay
Justice social condemns all that, and the true Catholic is the first to sponsor a change in which human dignity is fully safeguarded.
Look well, therefore, that social justice is not synonymous with coordination of beneficence, but the fulfillment of a strict duty to properly regulate human relationships.
d. UNIT: It should be noted, finally, dear children, that our salvation history will surely find it in our solidarity and unfailing adherence to Peter, now known as John XXIII and the recognition and enforcement of the doctrine of the Gospel and Papal directives. Being built on this solid rock, partake of Christ's promise: "Your are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell will never prevail against it "(Mt. 16, 18).
The Church never fear the battles of history by itself, but by their children. She knows that every crossroad out more refreshed than before.
enemies know it too, hence in this fight against Communism is not Capitalism, Communism but against religion - "Opium of the people" - wherever that nefarious system has put his claw, his concern first, at least in intent, but in execution, is the decapitation of the Church, expulsion of the Hierarchy, shackling of some, slander and vilification campaign for all, the systematic shutdown of the hierarchy with Rome, and faithful to their pastors, these are the methods used, along with that put constant vigilance not to make martyrs of the prisoners, but robots do and say what they want, thanks to sophisticated modern methods of physical and mental torture.
This campaign has already begun in our country. Have been stoned schools and temples, have attempted coups, misleading organize campaigns and petitions for signatures to join people working for Russia, has launched an ambitious plan to discredit the priest, in our own state capital does a Church that calls itself Mexican orthodox Catholic.
But these enemies of God does not know that there is an inner strength in the Church a supernatural vitality which sustains it afloat in the twentieth century career above all sea floods History.
Looking the urgency of the moment, like when a fire threatens to consume all forces come together and revive the human collaboration, so now the faithful leaving any spirit of division, discord all resentment and all form a tight bundle around the Bishop, around his pastor, because it requires our membership of this Mystical Body of Christ and the emergency we are facing.
How we want our alarm reached the very heart of our separated brethren! These consist of perhaps staying in good faith in the doctrines of evangelical calls, that given the current circumstances, undermine Catholicism is to undermine the spiritual stronghold, the only true-to stop the advance of the aptly named "Asian barbarism." That could read the high unit designs that God has linked to the presence of this formidable enemy of Western culture, of every religion and every order.
In short, all men of good will, all those who feel discomfort by the injustices of our materialist century, all those who live in the flesh, the urge in the Lord to close ranks, and renewed their arrests at a better life, are soldiers advanced to spread the true doctrine of social justice and to strive to realize their office or wherever its influence permits.
Communism will have fulfilled its historic mission arises a new social order inspired by tyranny, or the predominance of one social class over another, but on justice and Christian charity projected toward the formation of a world no longer human but divine, that is, formed after the heart of God and united to form this pyramid whose base is built on the land and its summit enters heaven the words of the Apostle of the people: "All things belong to you ... but ye are Christ's and Christ is God." (I. Cor. 3, 21-23)
Given in the city of San Cristobal de las Casas, in the feast of the Holy Guardian Angels, October 2, 1961.
(Signature and Seal)
+ Samuel Ruiz García
Bishop of Chiapas
