In an increasingly globalized society, the common good and the effort to obtain it cannot fail to assume the dimensions of the whole human family, that is to say, the community of peoples and nations,5 in such a way as to shape the earthly city in unity and peace, rendering it to some degree an anticipation and a prefiguration of the undivided city of God.
La acción del hombre sobre la tierra, cuando está inspirada y sustentada por la caridad, contribuye a la edificación de esa ciudad de Dios universal hacia la cual avanza la historia de la familia humana.