One cannot go to God without going through the brothers.
(Unpublished notes of Pope Montini, Famiglia Cristiana, No. 32, 6 August 1997)
The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.
(Encyclical letter Populorum Progressio, March 26, 1967)
No one may appropriate surplus goods solely for his own private use when others lack the bare necessities of life.
(Encyclical letter Populorum Progressio, March 26, 1967)
If one is in extreme necessity, he has the right to procure for himself what he needs out of the riches of others.
(Apostolic Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 69, 7 December 1965)
The suffering of the poor is ours! And we hope that our sympathy is in itself capable of arousing that new love which will multiply, through a providential and new economy at its service, the nourishment necessary to feed the world.
(Radio Message of Peace and Unity of all people, 23 December 1963)