The Tenth Commandment: You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.
What attitude should a Christian take toward other people's property?
A Christian must learn to distinguish reasonable desires from those that are unreasonable and unjust and to acquire an interior attitude of respect for other people's property.Covetousness leads to greed, avarice, theft, robbery and fraud, violence and injustice, envy and immoderate desires to own what belongs to others. (YOUCAT question 465)
Dig Deeper: CCC section (2526-2537) and other references here.
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