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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 A Free Market A Good Thing?
Free markets will not automatically produce justice. They have no means of guaranteeing the payment of a just wage or of just prices for consumers. But neither will they even necessarily produce economic prosperity.
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
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis
The application of Catholic social teaching to the whole world and to relationships between nations, which Paul VI called for with such urgency, for the most part did not take place.
John Paul II, Laborem Exercens
Work is not just an economic action; it is primarily something about the human person. It has economic consequences to be sure, but it arises from and affects man and society at many and deeper levels than the economic.
A Distributive Society is a Co-Creative Society…What’s That You Say?
As co-creators our work consists of loving, which is to say, of receiving that which was given by God, then giving it back in all its original goodness made even more precious by our seeing to it that through our dominion vigil it had not diminished in quality or condition.