Economic and Social Life Art. The political Community Art. The International Community of Nations Art. The whole Church is deeply conscious of the suffering and profound questions of humanity and wants to offer the message of salvation as a valid response to this situation. The Council offered some key principles of Christian Anthropology in Part One and then applied these to some of man's problems.
Man is bodily and so intimately connected with the material world.
Through grace man can see his choices in the light of their final end. Man will have to answer before God for the choices that he makes. Ultimately, Christ is the answer to man's search for meaning. This brotherhood is characterized by respect for persons, recognition of interdependence and a search for the common good. Work is a necessary and valuable part of human experience.