Word: pauls
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Popes speak and write continually and are variously heard and taken to heart. After his inauguration last fall John Paul II swiftly showed that he would be an activist teacher. His first speech endorsed both doctrinal conservatism and the reforms that grew out of the Second Vatican Council. Then in Latin America he demonstrated a blunt willingness to confront the theology of liberation and define just how priests should, and should not, pursue social justice. Last week he presented his first encyclical, a formal policy-setting letter from the Pope to the church and the world...
First encyclicals usually reveal what a Pope intends to do but they are rarely as memorable as those they issue later on. Nevertheless John Paul's Redemptor Hominis (Redeemer of Man) is a bold document that asserts religion's role as the conscience of the modern world, places Christ and individual man at the center of history and saves its sharpest language to criticize the dehumanizing excesses of modern political and economic systems, capitalist and Communist alike...
...John Paul opposes Western consumerism and Marxist economic determinism because they exalt materialism at the expense of the spirit and undermine the dignity of the individual human being, established for all time by Jesus Christ's redeeming death on the cross: "[Man] cannot become the slave of things, the slave of economic systems, the slave of production," he writes...
...openly totalitarian regimes that refuse to let the people be the "sovereign of their own destiny," they produce only "oppression, intimidation, violence and terrorism." In an implicit reference to his experience in Communist Poland, John Paul pleads for freedom of conscience. "It is difficult to accept ... a position that gives only atheism the right of citizenship in public and social life, while believers are ... barely tolerated or ... deprived of the rights of citizenship." In a dramatic appeal to rulers, he demands respect for religious liberty: "No privilege is asked for, but only respect for an elementary right...
Greacen surpassed all the other divers in the Eastern region, including Cornell's Paul Steck, who captured both boards at Easterns and placed tenth at NCAAs last year...