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Seek unity

Bible

Mt 5, 43-48

You have heard that it was said: ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you,

love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.

For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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DOCAT

How should we treat those who have broken the law?

Because a human being is always a person, solidarity with incarcerated citizens should not be withdrawn. Punishment should not humiliate and debase. Its purpose is to restore and protect public order, to change the guilty for the better, and it is a form of reparation. The Church opposes all governmental reactions that disregard the criminal’s human dignity, such as torture and disproportionate punishment. Moreover, she advocates less time-consuming trials.