The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 4

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The UniversalDeclaration of Human

RightsArticle 4

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave tradeshall be prohibited in all their forms .


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Man isreated Freefrom

Servitude

The seventh commandmentforbids acts or enterprisesthat for any reason - selfishor ideological, commercial, or totalitarian - lead tothe enslavement of humanbeings , to their being bought,sold and exchanged likemerchandise, in disregard for their personal dignity.


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Servitude

It is a sin against the dignity of persons and their fundamentalrights to reduce them byviolence to their productivevalue or to a source of profit.

St. Paul directed a Christian

master to treat his Christianslave "no longer as a slave butmore than a slave, as a belovedbrother, . . . both in the fleshand in the Lord . (Philemon 16)

Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) #2414

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Servitude

Freedom is exercised inrelationships between humanbeings.

Every human person,created in the image of God,has the natural right to berecognized as a free and

responsible being. All owe to each other thisduty of respect.


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Servitude

The right to the exercise of freedom , especially in moraland religious matters, is aninalienable requirement of thedignity of the human person.

This right must be recognizedand protected by civil authoritywithin the limits of the commongood and public order. (cf.Dignitalis Humanae 2 & 7)

Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) #1738

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Freedomis Innate in

Man

Freedom of the Children of God.

The goal of this process and taskof personal freedom is to be setfree from slavery to corruptionand share in the glorious freedom

of the Children of God (Rom8:21)

Christ has freed us by giving toeveryone the power to conquer

sin and to recover the meaning of our freedom and to attain thegood and accomplish our callingas children of God (cf. CCC1741)


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Freedomis Innate in

Man

Freedom to attain thegood simply means toact as Jesus did to

mirror in life theFatherhood of God as theFathers adopted sons anddaughters in Jesus, theSon , and through Jesusindwelling Spirit.


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Freedomis Innate in

Man

Promised by Christ, theHoly Spirit is within us,creating space for our freedom and making usalive. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there isfreedom (2 Cor 3:17; cf.CCC 1742)

Catechism for Filipino Catholics(CFC) # 698

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EveryonesRight to

Freedom

Throughout the worldtoday, there is anunprecedented drive for

freedom, for breaking outof all the old structures of political oppression, racialprejudice, economicinjustice, and constrictingcultural mores.


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EveryonesRight to

Freedom

The demand isincreasingly made thatmen should act on their own judgment, enjoying,

and making use of aresponsible freedom, notdriven by coercion butmotivated by a sense of duty

Dignitalis Humanae (Declaration onReligious Freedom, 1965) 1)


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EveryonesRight to

Freedom

Since the Gospel of JesusChrist is a message of freedomand a force for liberation(Instruction on Theology of Liberation(1984)), we recognize here anauthentic sign of Godspresence and purpose for authentic freedom is anexceptional sign of the divineimage within man (Gaudium et Spes 11, 17)

Catechism for Filipino Catholics (CFC) #393

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Slavery:Hindrance

of Freedom

The (Seventh)Commandments prohibition wasthen extended beyond kidnapping tothe many other less dramatic ways of robbing anothers freedom , manyways of exploiting others and stealingfrom them what is rightfully theirs.Exploitation in food, housing, andclothing, endangers personalfreedom.

Catechism for Filipino Catholics (CFC) #1142

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Slavery:Hindrance

of Freedom

Weare per sona l em bod ied sp i r i t s as embodied , we absolutely needfood, shelter and clothing tosurvive. As person al sp i r i t s , we are born,grow up and mature within familyand community interpersonalrelationships, creating for usa cultural, not mere animal, life,under God, our personal,transcendent Creator-Redeemer.


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Slavery:Hindrance

of Freedom

Vatican II describes our human situationas follows:

Therefore, there must be made available toall men everything necessary for leading alife truly human, such as food, clothing, andshelter; the right to choose a state of lifefreely and to found a family, the right toeducation, to employment, to agood reputation, to respect and toappropriate information, to activity inaccordance with the upright norm of onesown conscience, to protection of privacyand to rightful freedom in matters religious,too (Gaudium et Spes 26).

Catechism for Filipino Catholics (CFC) # 1145

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SlaveryViolatesHuman

Dignity

Whatever insults humandignity, such as subhuman

living conditions, arbitraryimprisonment, deportation,

slavery, prostitution, theselling of women andchildren; as well asdisgraceful working

conditions, where men aretreated as mere tools for profit, rather than as freeand responsible persons;


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SlaveryViolatesHuman

Dignity

All these things and othersof their like are infamies

indeed. They poison human

society, but they do moreharm to those who practicethem than those who suffer

from the injury.

Gaudium et Spes (#27) 5

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Gods Callto

Freedom


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Gods Call

to Equality


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Servicefrom

Servitude


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