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A modern dictionary of Catholic terms, both common and obscure. Find accurate definitions of words and phrases.
COMMON GOOD
The benefit of the community. It is the welfare of the whole community, as the proper object of a just law, and is distinguished from individual good, which looks only to the good of a single person.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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