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...economic and foreign policy matters. Thirty years ago my stance would not have seemed paradoxical. Catholics were historically one of the most liberal groups in the country and a quick glance at papal encyclicals laying out Church teachings on war (Pacem in Terris) and labor and economics (Rerum Novarum), one might begin to wonder if Marx didn’t write off his biggest potential ally. Then along came Ronald Reagan’s PR machine, turning the abortion issue into the electoral juggernaut that it is, and swung the Catholic vote like Nixon swung the “solid...
...then in 1991 Centesimus annus came in, a 25,000-word encyclical on the 100th anniversary of Leo XIII's Rerum novarum, the momentous condemnation of liberalism and materialism. Materialism meant then what it means today. By liberalism, Pope Leo had in mind contemporary movements that sought, in the name of "modernism," to free human beings from traditional attachments to church and family. In the centennial encyclical, Pope John Paul reiterated his frequent admonitions. The worker or manager who reports to duty at the shop every morning inflamed by the desire to make a better widget and sell more...
...letter is the latest in a long series of Catholic pronouncements on economic questions. Beginning with Pope Leo Kill's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, which stressed the right of individuals to a living wage, the church has consistently called for improvements in the lot of workers. In 1919 the American bishops put forth a Program for Social Reconstruction that urged the establishment of a minimum wage, social security and un employment insurance. Pope John Paul II's 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens decried what he considered the tendency of unregulated capitalism to reduce workers to the status of instruments...
Since Pope Leo XIII wrote his Rerum Novarum in the late 1800s, the Church has been looking at the world around it. And though the view of the Catholic bureaucracy is still often regressive and dogmatic, the theology and the political practices of many Catholic priests becomes more human, more revolutionary, more Christlike with each passing year. It is no accident that Poland and El Salvador share an active, powerful, and near universally respected Catholic Church; in both cases, organized religion has been empowering, emboldening. In both cases, it has been instrumental in the decision of the people to cast...
...Roman Catholic Church, John Paul underlined those concerns, this time through the theme of human work. He had intended to issue the 24,000-word document, titled Laborem Exercens (On Working), last spring in connection with the 90th anniversary of Pope Leo Kill's encyclical Rerum Novarum, the first Catholic document devoted to social questions. Its release, however, had to await his recovery from the bullet wounds he suffered last May. "It is only after my stay in hospital," he explains at the end of the document, "that I have been able to revise it definitively...