CCC 548 The signs worked by Jesus attest that the Father has sent him. They invite belief in him.¹ To those who turn to him in faith, he grants what they ask.² So miracles strengthen faith in the One who does his Father’s works; they bear witness that he is the Son of God.³ But his miracles can also be occasions for “offence”;⁴ they are not intended to satisfy people’s curiosity or desire for magic Despite his evident miracles some people reject Jesus; he is even accused of acting by the power of demons.⁵

CCC 549 By freeing some individuals from the earthly evils of hunger, injustice, illness and death,⁶ Jesus performed messianic signs. Nevertheless he did not come to abolish all evils here below,⁷ but to free men from the gravest slavery, sin, which thwarts them in their vocation as God’s sons and causes all forms of human bondage.⁸

CCC 2444 “The Church’s love for the poor. .. is a part of her constant tradition.” This love is inspired by the Gospel of the Beatitudes, of the poverty of Jesus, and of his concern for the poor.⁹ Love for the poor is even one of the motives for the duty of working so as to “be able to give to those in need.”¹⁰ It extends not only to material poverty but also to the many forms of cultural and religious poverty.¹¹

1 cf. Jn 5:36; 10:25, 38.
2 Cf. Mk 5:25-34; 10:52; etc.
3 Cf. Jn 10:31-38.
4 Mt 11:6.
5 Cf. Jn 11:47-48; Mk 3:22.
6 Cf. Jn 6:5-15; Lk 19:8; Mt 11:5.
7 Cf. Lk 12 13-14; Jn 18:36.
8 Cf. Jn 8:34-36.
9 CA 57; cf. Lk 6:20-22, Mt 8:20; Mk 12:41-44.
10 Eph 4:28.
11 Cf. CA 57.