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Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable

====Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable is the 4th theme is Catholic Social Teaching. Preferential Option means to take care of the people who need it most. As a Church we need to stand by the poor. It is our job to satisfy them.The church feels called to take a stand aside the poor, without losing sight of the good of groups in the context of the common good Those who are weak, vulnerable, or poor deserve the preferential concern of the society. Our society is based on the differences of rich and poor, and the poor needs our help. ====

====Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable means that we must take care of all people in which we are to give the same rights to others that we have for ourselves. We must protect the poor and the vulnerable by giving relief to those in most need. We also must provide charity, defense, and liberty to those who deserve it. When we start to embrace Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable, God asks us to look over those who are in poverty and are in need for what they do not have. We have to look at the perspective of those in need. We must create conditions for them to be heard, defended against injustice, and provide oppertunities for their empowerment and attainment of the fullness of their human lives. In these ways, we are responsible to help those who need us most, and do not have voices of their own. ====

This Articles focuses on the whole idea of what Preferential Option for the poor and vulnerable is.
====It tells us as Christians what we are called to do. It tells us all the different ways to help the poor and vulnerable. We are also called to make their lives a better place. Poor in this case does not necessarily mean people with money problems. But it could also mean the sick, the weak, the hungry, the homeless, and the people with spiritual problems too. The article shows us that we, as one body of Christ, needs to build up the community so we all become one. ====

This article talks about Jesus' actions and how  it's clear that we as Christians have a responsibility to act like him. Are actions differ in different situations. Helping a homeless person is different from helping a sick person, but you still do it in the act of God. We learn through the bible, some ways to help poor and vulnerable. Just as that woman in the Old Testament shared her small flour for bread with another. It shows, we too are called to share the little or even plentiful that we have with our neighbor.

> What are you willing to give up for your neighbor
 * ====Ask yourself: ====


 * ====  The church feels called to take a stand beside the poor and to help satisfy their needs. However, we must do this without turning our attention full away from the other groups ====
 * ====Other vulnerable people include: the sick, the mentally ill, or those who have been through a traumatizing situation. ====
 * ====The idea of preferential option is not based on equality ====
 * Although some believe that everyone should be given the same amount of concern, some people need it more than others
 * ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">it is mostly based on justice, which is giving everyone what they deserve and need ====


 * ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">We need to ask “why?” Why are people starving around the world? How can the United States, the richest nation in the world, allow its people to live in poverty, to be homeless in the “land of opportunity,” ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">What occurs in the United States and throughout the world that allows so many to have so little when so few have so much? ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">What are my responsibilities as I step out into this unjust world society and try to make it my way? What is your way of helping the poor? ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">What are some very concrete ways that you can make a preferential option for the poor? ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Do you know what it means to have preferential options for the poor and vulnerable? ====

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