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To: dangus

Subsidiarity was accepted Church doctrine, and was never officially discarded by the Church.

Several Popes have spoken against Socialism.

Not so much, anymore, and it is a shame.


55 posted on 03/09/2009 11:34:45 AM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Kansas58

You seem to equate subsidiarity with a rejection of socialism. Certainly, socialism violates the principles of subsidiarity, but just bebcause it is doctrine that socialism is a grave evil does not mean that subsidiarity is Catholic doctrine.

Is there anyone you know of who has asserted subsidiarity is doctrine.

By the way, the Pope I first learned about subsidiarity through was John Paul II, but that was a rallying cry of Gdansk dock workers as a method of dealing with communist oppression; it’s nothing I understood the be Catholic doctrine. (I think it is universally applicable, as did Belloc and Chesterton; I just never got the sense that John Paul II ever meant to say, “Hey, America, you need to do this, also!”)


56 posted on 03/09/2009 11:48:37 AM PDT by dangus
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