Aktywizm polityczny naczelnym postulatem społecznego nauczania Kościoła
Christian Political Activity as a Paramount Concept of the Church’s Social Teaching

Summary/Abstract: Every Christian is called to be active in this world. Spreading the Good News, living according to the divine moral law and practicing the virtue of charity do not serve just as paradigm but they define the way every individual believer is present in today’s world community. The political activity of the faithful is mandated by the Church’s Social Teaching and this can be seen in the documents of the Second Vatican Council and in the magisterium of Pope St. John Paul II. This paper consists of two part. The first one presents the way an individual is present in a society. The latter analyses how this involvement influences the development of the common good within the social community. It is mostly the task of the laity to transform the this world and their activity could be perceived as a kind of a missionary work. The Christian political activity means also that one is to multiply his or her talents, both the natural and the supernatural. By doing so they fulfil the call to mission which Jesus pronounces in the Gospels. The most important moral indicator of the human acts is practicing love understood as a selfless act aimed in achieving a certain good. Love is the fundament of other principles of social life such as solidarity, justice, subsidiarity etc. Each of these principles has as its goal the good of the human person who is naturally disposed to the openness to God.

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