We support laws and programs that promote childbirth and adoption over abortion, and those that provide aid to people who are sick or dying. War, genocide, and starvation threaten the lives of millions throughout the world. Direct and intentional attacks on civilians are never morally acceptable. We support programs and policies that promote peace, arms control, and sustainable development for the world's poor. The God-given institutions of marriage and the family are central and serve as the foundations for social life.
Marriage provides the basic foundation for family life and needs to be protected.
Tax, workplace, divorce, and welfare policies must be designed to help families stay together and to reward responsibility and sacrifice for children. It is important that just wages be paid to those who work to support their families. Pursuing Social Justice Scripture and the Church's teaching call on all of us to embrace God's preferential love of the poor and vulnerable, to embody it in our lives, and to work to have it shape public policies and priorities. We support those policies that create jobs with adequate pay and decent working conditions, increase the minimum wage so it becomes a living wage, and overcome barriers to equal pay and employment for women and minorities. We reaffirm traditional teaching on the right of workers to choose to organize and bargain collectively, on the importance of economic freedom, initiative, and the right to private property.