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...many outside John's church. In Mater et Magistra (1961), he brought up to date the tradition of Catholic social teaching first formulated by Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum, defending both man's right to private property and the legitimacy of "socialization" for the common good. Pacem in Terris, the first encyclical addressed not just to the bishops and the faithful but to "all men of good will," was a lucid blueprint for a world of peace based on truth, justice, order and liberty. It was the first time in all history that a Pope had given...
...Without displacing the church's traditional ideological objections to Communism, he began exploring the possibility of a political concord with the East that would ease Red pressure on the Iron Curtain churches. His was a politic based more on love than on geopolitical realities. When he was editing Pacem in Terris and came to a sentence that noted how both sides in the cold war had entered the nuclear arms race for defensive purposes, John added: "And there is no reason to disbelieve them." Did he mean that? "No," answers Monsignor Pietro Pavan, the Vatican scholar who drafted...
...Ecumenical Council, the sixth encyclical Pacem in Terris, and his essential kindness make Pope John one of the world's great spiritual leaders. One can only hope that his successor will carry on the work he has begun...
...Communist showing was due to Red defections from Pietro Nenni's sharply divided Socialists, the left-wing crowd that had thrown its lot with Fanfani. And in part it was due to Pope John XXIII, who had given a modicum of approval to the far left with his Pacem in Terris encyclical, and with his warm welcome to the Vatican last March for Nikita Khrushchev's visiting son-in-law, Aleksei Adzhubei...
...campaign issue; this time, Pope John has made it hotter than usual by meeting Aleksei Adzhubei, Nikita Khrushchev's son-in-law, last month, and otherwise establishing friendlier relations with the Kremlin. Fortnight ago, the Communist newspaper L'Unita exaggerated Pope John's recent Pacem in Terris encyclical as "an appeal for peace based on nuclear disarmament." This prompted a pro-government newspaper to crack that the Reds were suddenly "more papist than the Pope." In fact, the Vatican is quietly backing Fanfani's Christian Democratic-Socialist partnership, though publicly it has steered a neutral course...