The Power of Pursuit of Individual Gain

The pursuit of individual gain as opposed to some of the communal or belonging to particular groups is a contest that we have, he says. The church would condemn the exaltation of the individual to the exclusion of the community, according to Catholic social teaching. St. Vincent de Paul founded a community that became a society for doing good and now belongs to the communion of saints; his relationship with God is bound up in the whole choir.