Apostolate and politics

Politics, in the noble sense of the word, is fundamentally a service aimed at achieving the common good of the earthly City. But this good extends to a very wide sphere, and consequently it is in the political arena that the most important laws are debated and passed: those affecting marriage, the family, education, private property, and the dignity (the rights and duties) of the human person. All these matters and others too pertain in the first instance to religion, and they cannot leave an apostle indifferent or uninterested.

The Work has no political activity

The Work has no political agenda whatsoever. That is not its goal. Our only aim is spiritual and apostolic, and it has a divine seal: love for the freedom that Christ won for us by dying on the Cross.²¹ For this reason the Work of God has never entered nor will it ever enter into the struggles between political parties. It is not merely praiseworthy but it is a strict duty for our Family to remain above the contingent quarrels that poison political life, since, I repeat, the Work has no political but only apostolic goals.

Members of the Work can and should play a part in public life actively or passively

But you, my children (each one personally), would not only commit an error, as I said, but you would also betray our Lord’s cause if you were to allow those who are unworthy, incompetent or enemies of Christ and his Church to direct the affairs of the state.