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Extreme Integralists think that compulsion should be used to force societies to engage with the Transcendental Common Good. Liberalism thinks that the Transcendental Common Good should be ignored. Between these extremes is another position which accepts that the Transcendental Common Good should be the vision for every society, but it also insists upon trying to achieve that vision with as much personal freedom as possible.

What this means in practice is that Christians commit to the Transcendental Common Good as influencing what they campaign for and establish in their societies. But they also try to ensure that people have the maximum intellectual and sociological “room” to be able to freely choose that vision. 

https://catholicstand.com/does-the-common-good-require-integralism/

Mercy without love is condescension, love without mercy is controlling and in the end self-serving. https://catholicherald.co.uk/mercy-is-the-way-god-shows-love/

To love is to will the good of the other.

Romantic relationships and even marriages stumble over this definition frequently, because they typically begin with what we call the “feelings” of love (which feelings, one hopes, may be long preserved), but they are slower to unite these feelings with not only a genuine and continuous willing of the other’s good but even a sacrificial commitment to it.

https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/why-cant-you-just-be-more-loving/

I agree that Christians are called to compassion. But what is compassion? It is not merely niceness, and it certainly doesn’t mean facilitating behavior and lifestyles inimical to people’s wellbeing.

Jesus shows us what compassion is: Suffering with and for others for the sake of the forgiveness of their sins and the redemption of their immortal souls.

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/dmq-catholic-professionals-values

https://catholicstand.com/science-has-proven-the-real-presence/

https://www.osvnews.com/2021/04/16/what-catholics-need-to-know-about-indulgences/