Exploring Catholic Social Teaching
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196 <strong>Exploring</strong> <strong>Catholic</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Teaching</strong><br />
4 Note that in telling this parable, Christ does not condemn the rich man’s wealth itself; what instead does<br />
He show that the rich man has allowed wealth to do to him? What responsibility comes with wealth?<br />
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5 The rich man pleads with Abraham to allow Lazarus to warn his fathers and brothers, who are still living,<br />
of the fate the rich man has suffered. Whom do these figures represent? How does Abraham’s response<br />
serve as a warning?<br />
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6 What could the rich man have done to achieve God’s justice? Rewrite the parable into an imagined one<br />
in which Christ instead praises the rich man for his just acts.<br />
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