CCC 2438

Various causes of a religious, political, economic, and financial nature today give "the social question a worldwide dimension."²²⁴ SRS 9. There must be solidarity among nations which are already politically interdependent. It is even more essential when it is a question of dismantling the "perverse mechanisms" that impede the development of the less advanced countries.²²⁵ Cf. SRS 17; 45. In place of abusive if not usurious financial systems, iniquitous commercial relations among nations, and the arms race, there must be substituted a common effort to mobilize resources toward objectives of moral, cultural, and economic development, "redefining the priorities and hierarchies of values."²²⁶ CA 28; Cf. 35.