Comments on: “Charity”: Donation or giving back what is rightfully theirs? http://www.justice.net.nz/justwiki/charity-donation-or-giving-back-what-is-rightfully-theirs/ Standing Just Where We Are Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:22:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anne http://www.justice.net.nz/justwiki/charity-donation-or-giving-back-what-is-rightfully-theirs/comment-page-1/#comment-14166 Anne Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:30:28 +0000 http://www.justice.net.nz/economics/charity-donation-or-giving-back-what-is-rightfully-theirs/#comment-14166 Someone just emailed me saying that the quote above is St Ambrose – Pope Paul VI quotes from him in the encyclical Populorum Progressio as saying: “You are not making a gift of your possessions to the poor person. You are handing over to him what is his. For what has been given in common for the use of all, you have arrogated to yourself. The world is given to all, and not only to the rich". Someone just emailed me saying that the quote above is St Ambrose – Pope Paul VI quotes from him in the encyclical Populorum Progressio as saying:

“You are not making a gift of your possessions to the poor person. You are handing over to him what is his. For what has been given in common for the use of all, you have arrogated to yourself. The world is given to all, and not only to the rich”.

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