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‘What Justifies Political Activity is Service to Man’
The following is an excerpt from Pope John Paul II’s address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on October 2, 1979.
On Politics
In the final analysis (political) activity comes from man, is exercised by man and is for man. And if political activity is cut off from this fundamental relationship and finally, if it becomes in a way its own end, it loses much of its reason to exist. Even more, it can give rise to specific alienation; it can become extraneous to man; it can come to contradict humanity itself. In reality, what justifies the existence of political activity is service to man, concerned and responsible attention to their essential problems and duties of his earthly existence in its social dimension and significance, on which also the good of each person depends.
The following is an excerpt from Pope John Paul II’s address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on October 2, 1979.
On Politics
In the final analysis (political) activity comes from man, is exercised by man and is for man. And if political activity is cut off from this fundamental relationship and finally, if it becomes in a way its own end, it loses much of its reason to exist. Even more, it can give rise to specific alienation; it can become extraneous to man; it can come to contradict humanity itself. In reality, what justifies the existence of political activity is service to man, concerned and responsible attention to their essential problems and duties of his earthly existence in its social dimension and significance, on which also the good of each person depends.