[impimp]

From a Roman Catholic perspective:

There are many social justice encyclicals. They build on one another. Looking at this one in isolation is useful, but not as useful as putting it in the context of all of the social justice encyclicals. To that end, I recommend you look at Centessimus Annus which was the most recent social justice encyclical (circa 1990 Pope JPII). This document embraces capitalism and condemns socialism more than any other previous encyclical. It is a good read.

Benedict will have another encyclical on social justice out in the next few months. This will then become the critical one to review.

[Quix]

Excellent points. I would like to read the one slated to come out. Please ping me to it, if you come across it.

Thanks.

I was originally just going to verify the quote as it is in my list of globalist quotes.

Then it became clear that I needed to comment on more paragraphs than that one.

And, all the more so when an RC more or less accused/ insisted that I was making stuff up. Sheesh.

[Quix]

This document embraces capitalism and condemns socialism more than any other previous encyclical. It is a good read.

. . .

Was that a factor in his premature departure?

[dangus]

>> I recommend you look at Centessimus Annus which was the most recent social justice encyclical (circa 1990 Pope JPII). This document embraces capitalism and condemns socialism more than any other previous encyclical. It is a good read. <<

I have to disagree with the statement that it condemns socialism more than any other previous encyclical. Populorum Progressio (”Forward People”) puts some slight qualification on the explicit condemnation of socialism which previous encyclicals had made. Unfortunately, many liberals reported that Rerum Novarum (”New Things”), for instance, was written before Vatican II “changed everything.” In fact, Vatican II changed nothing. Rerum Novarum was in ways the most influential encyclical ever, forming the intellectual foundation of counter-socialism in Europe.

Centessimus Annus (”100 Years [since Rerum Novarum]”) restated Rerum Novarum’s criticism of socialism. If anything, it tried to strike a bit more balanced of a tone, to remind the middle classes of Europe and America (which scarcely existed when Rerum Novarum was published) that capitalism hasn’t fully addressed yet. But impimp is very correct when he asserts that Centessimus Annus boldly reasserted the Catholic Church’s opposition to socialism. Unfortunately, the mainstream media’s spin machine largely ignored that opposition.

Pope John Paul II: Capitalism isn’t perfect, but socialism is an unspeakable evil!
Socialist mainstream media: The Pope criticized capitalism!

Unfortunately Pope Paul VI’s intellectual failings helped foster within the American church a leftish presbyterate which did little to correct the MSM.