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Is He Prepared To Support, At His Own Expense, Projects And Undertakings Designed To Help The Needy? Is He Prepared To Pay Higher Taxes So That Public Authorities May Expand Their Efforts In The Work Of Development? Is He Prepared To Pay More For Imported Goods, So That The Foreign Producer May Make A Fairer Profit? Is He Prepared To Emigrate From His Homeland If Necessary And If He Is Young, In Order To Help The Emerging Nations?

If You Want Peace, Work For Justice.

The Hungry Nations Of The World Cry Out To The Peoples Blessed With Abundance. And The Church, Cut To The Quick By This Cry, Asks Each And Every Man To Hear His Brother's Plea And Answer It Lovingly.

Perhaps The Lord Has Called Me And Preserved Me For This Service Not Because I Am Particularly Fit For It, Or So That I Can Govern And Rescue The Church From Her Present Difficulties, But So That I Can Suffer Something For The Church, And In That Way It Will Be Clear That He, And No Other, Is Her Guide And Saviour

There Are Those Who Ask What Authority, What Theological Qualification, The Council Intended To Give To Its Teachings, Knowing That It Avoided Issuing Solemn Dogmatic Definitions Backed By The Church's Infallible Teaching Authority. The Answer Is Known By Those Who Remember The Conciliar Declaration Of March 6, 1964, Repeated On November 16, 1964. In View Of The Pastoral Nature Of The Council, It Avoided Proclaiming In An Extraordinary Manner Any Dogmata Carrying The Mark Of Infallibility.