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In November 2010, Pope Benedict said that the Catholic lay persons must be educated in the Church’s social teaching:
“It is necessary to prepare lay people capable of dedicating themselves to the common good, especially in complex environments such as the world of politics…Lay Catholics must undertake to promote the correct ordering of social life, while respecting the legitimate autonomy of worldly institutions…A profound understanding of the social doctrine of the Church is of fundamental importance, in harmony with all her theological heritage and strongly rooted in affirming the transcendent dignity of man, in defending human life from conception to natural death and in religious freedom.”