of society (#35). Human and moral factors are just as important as profit to the life of a business (#35). The defeat of "Real Socialism" does not leave capitalism as the only model of economic organization (#35). Stronger nations must offer weaker nations the opportunity to take their place in the international order (#35). The foreign debt of poorer countries needs to be handled in a way that respects the rights of peoples to subsistence and progress (#35). Consumerism has created attitudes and lifestyles which damage the physical and spiritual health of human beings (#36). It is necessary to create lifestyles in which the quest for truth, beauty, goodness, and the common good determine choices (#36). The mass media has a special role to play in fostering a sense of general responsibility (#36). The ecological question emphasizes human responsibility to future generations (#37). Social structures can create environments conducive to sin which impede full human realization (#38). The family, founded on marriage between a man and a woman, is the sanctuary of life (#39). True human alienation happens when a person refuses to transcend the self and live a self-giving life in an authentic human community that is oriented toward God (#41). With the collapse of Communism, capitalism, with business, markets, private property, and free human creativity in the economic sector, should be the goal of developing countries. The Marxist solution has failed, but marginalization, exploitation, and alienation still exist in the Third World (#42). The Church's social teaching should serve as an orientation, rather than as a model, toward solving problems (#43). The principal task of the State is to guarantee the security of individual freedom and private property, as well as to prevent monopolies (#48). We must have trust in the human potential of the poor, and in their ability to improve their own conditions through work and economic prosperity (#52). State and culture The root of modem totalitarianism is found in its denial of the transcendent dignity of the human person. (#44) In defending her own freedom, the Church defends the dignity of the human person (#45). The Church values any democratic system that ensures its citizens' ability to participate in it (#46). Democratic systems need to solidify their foundations by explicitly recognizing certain rights, especially the rights to life, to work, and to establish a family (#47). Some democracies have lost the ability to make decisions