Post Tagged with: "Centesimus Annus"
The Continuity of Centesimus Annus
Another thing Centesimus does not do, is discard those “third way fantasies” Mr. Weigel is so excited to dismiss. The implications are that we either have the concentration of property in the hands of the State or in the hands of the few. But the very document he adamantly defends as embracing the “free market” debunks this position.
Three Strategies for Evasion
While one is hardly surprised to find dissent from Catholic teaching among liberal Catholics, it is just as common to find it among conservative Catholics. These latter, however, since they see themselves as faithful adherents to Catholic doctrine, necessarily must create some strategy of disguising their dissent from Catholic teaching.
Is the Acton Institute a Genuine Expression of Catholic Social Thought?
Liberty the highest political end of man? Not justice, not virtue, not the common good? All else flows from this fundamental error, the error, in fact, of Lucifer, who desired liberty above all else.
Centesimus Annus Part Two
Catholic moral teaching simply cannot accept the market according to its own logic, that is, according to a logic which sees the market and market solutions as able to take care of all or most human and social difficulties and needs.
Centesimus Annus Part One
To spread her social doctrine pertains to the Church’s evangelizing mission and is an essential part of the Christian message…
- Pope John Paul II
The Fall of the Wall
The history of the world since 1918, and particularly since the end of World War II, had been dominated by the struggle with communism, and most of that time it looked like we were losing. Yalta had allowed Stalin to swallow up Eastern Europe, which quickly became a prison for its own people. China fell, and a bloody stalemate was reached in Korea.
What Does Centesimus Annus Really Teach?
Does Centesimus Annus really endorse the ‘free’ market? Thomas Storck demonstrates how Pope John Paul II’s encyclical not only fails to endorse laissez-faire but how the document is fundamentally in accord with traditional social doctrine.