Caritas Internationalis - Company Perspectives:

Company Perspectives:

Guiding Values: The guiding values and principles provide the moral and strategic basis for all the work of the Caritas Confederation. Dignity of the human person: The dignity of the human person is our foundational moral value. We reject the reification of the poor and seek to make them not objects of our pity but subjects of their own development and agents of change. In this way, Caritas makes God's love for creation manifest in the world. Option for the poor: The Caritas Confederation commits itself to combating dehumanising poverty, which robs people of their dignity and humanity, and to promoting the rights of the poor. We commit ourselves to restoring their sense of co-responsibility in building a better world. We also need to underline the position of women, recognising that they have to be given their rightful place in Caritas structures. Universal destination of the Earth's goods: Any economic, social, political or cultural structure which opposes or oppresses and prevents change towards justice is sinful. We seek to encourage our membership to redress the balance by working to transform these structures into graced social structures which favour the poor. Solidarity: The Caritas Confederation seeks to inculcate in its membership and its dealings with other non-governmental organisations and global institutions a genuine sense of solidarity, not as a feeling of sympathy but of empathy, of putting oneself in the shoes of the poor and seeing the world from their perspective. Stewardship: The Caritas Confederation commits itself to being in solidarity not only with people but with the whole of creation and therefore seeks to act in an environmentally sustainable way at all times.