It was modernity's great contribution to Christian history to have recognized the church's mandated preferential options for the poor and oppressed with a clarity previously cultivated only in the monastic orders. (firstthings.com)
Every Catholic teaching, from those pertaining to human sexuality and openness to children; to the affirmation of marriage as a union between a man and a woman and the respect and compassion owed to our gay brothers and sisters; to the intentional reduction of one's carbon footprint and the preferential option for the poor, are the threads which weave together a consistent ethic of life. (firstthings.com)
All of the teachings of the Church — from the profession of the Trinity, to the inviolability of all human life in every stage, to the preferential option for the poor — are like intersecting threads, which, when woven together, form a tapestry. (firstthings.com)