We confirm the need for the conversion of the entire Church in the sense of a preferential option for the poor, envisaging their complete liberation (
The poor are not to be regarded as objects, as people to whom the Church is giving attention, or as an object the Church is taking care of. The poor themselves are part of the new evangelizing and political power. They are the new subject in the Church and in society: people with their own power and dignity, with initiative and responsibility. They organize themselves to fight for their rights, and they evangelize, by they bring the Good News of Christ into the Church. Only when the Church becomes poorer, simpler and more prophetic through the poor, will she be what Jesus wants her to be (cf. 1 Cor 12; Medellin 2,9; 5,15; 10,2; 12,13; 14,7-10; Puebla 96; 485; 622; 629; 640; 1134; 1142; 1147; 1177; 1309; Santo Domingo 178ff, 296).
CCFMC, Lesson Unit 20, C 1.1
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