Catechism: Talk 59 (8th Commandment)
Humanity’s longing for truth finds fulfilment in Christ; the Catechism urges honesty, rejects harmful speech, and teaches that beauty, integrity, and witness reveal God’s truth.
Catechism: The Seventh Commandment, (second part)
Catholic teaching critiques extremes of socialism and capitalism, insisting on human dignity, solidarity, subsidiarity, and prioritising the poor, echoing Scripture’s call to generosity and justice.
Catechism: The Seventh Commandment (part 1)
“You cannot serve both God and money”: Greed fuels dishonesty and injustice, while Church teaching urges integrity, social responsibility, and compassionate stewardship toward people and creation.
Catechism: Talk 53
The divine plan of Revelation is realized simultaneously ‘by deeds and words which are intrinsically bound up with each other’ and shed light on one another. It involves a specific divine pedagogy: God communicates himself to man gradually, preparing him to welcome, in stages, the supernatural Revelation that culminates in the person and mission of the incarnate Word, Jesus Christ.