The seventh commandment forbids acts or enterprises that for any reason— selfish or ideological, commercial, or totalitarian— lead to the enslavement of human beings, to their being bought, sold and exchanged like merchandise, in disregard for their personal dignity. It is a sin against the dignity of persons and their fundamental rights to reduce them by violence to their productive value or to a source of profit.
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Tearing Down Paul’s Subjection of Wives to Their Husbands
A man, a husband, must subject himself to the Church’s teaching that a woman, his wife, “represents God from whom comes our help.”
Sick Pilgrim 