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So, I suppose that I should say that the Church should seek to influence elections by teaching the truth about man, cosmos, and God in such a fashion that politics be restored to itself as a prudential area largely dependent on a correct understanding of man's transcendent end and the arena in which this end is worked out in our lives. The reason politics is considered to be so important is, too often, because we suspect that this world is all there is. If this were true, of course, we can do whatever we want. To oppose it will seem to be inhuman.
The Trinity is the answer to the great Aristotelian enigma of whether God is "lonely." If He is, then it would seem that He needs us. But were this so, God would not be God. The Trinity means that God is not lonely. In my first book, Redeeming the Time (1968), I entitled the chapter on this topic "The Trinity: God Is Not Alone." That still is the central point. Since God is complete in Himself and does not need anything, including us, it follows that we exist out of the abundance of God's love that can seek to create what is good outside of Himself. This is what we are, except in our human case, we are specifically created, each of us, to see God face-to-face. Nothing less. The central dynamism of the universe stems from this source.
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