Word: magistra
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Natural Right. Populorum Progressio shifts considerably to the left of previous papal encyclicals in its criticism of private property. In his celebrated Rerum Novarum of 1891, Pope Leo XIII argued that economic reform must take into account "the inviolability of private property"; Pope John's Mater et Magistra likewise termed private ownership "a natural right" of man. Paul, on the other hand, declared that property ownership "does not constitute for anyone an absolute and unconditional right. No one is justified in keeping for his exclusive use what he does not need when others lack necessities. The right to property...
...Others: Pope John XXIII's encyclicals Mater et Magistra (1961) and Pacem in Terris (1963), and the Second Vatican Council's constitution, "On the Church in the Modern World...
What will most intimately affect Catholics is the fourth chapter, a discussion of major world problems, which follows the tone and spirit of Pope John's encyclicals, Mater et Magistra and Pacem in Terris. A section on economic and social order amplifies John's dream of humane socialization; it argues that "economic development must in no case be left entirely to itself," and "the earth's goods are the common inheritance of the whole human race." A section on peace warns that "the use of nuclear weapons must be judged before God and man as most wicked...
...shipping, railroads and broadcasting. Continental businessmen, many of them connected with Catholic-oriented political parties -as in Italy, Belgium and Germany-have also been influenced by the softening of the Catholic Church's position on socialism, as evidenced by Pope John's encyclical Mater et Magistra...
...Society as we see them," says Buckley. National Review has held that racial segregation is "not intrinsically immoral," and it opposed the civil rights bill on the grounds that it ceded to the White House "the powers of a despot." When Pope John XXIII, in his Mater et Magistra encyclical, seemed to be saying that a little socialism was not necessarily bad, Buckley, a Roman Catholic, attacked the encyclical as "a venture in triviality." He also objected to last summer's Freedom March on Washington: "Mob-deployment in circumstances that call for thought and discussion is a dangerous resort...