Spe Salvi ¶ 5
5. We must add a further point of view. The First Letter to the Corinthians (1:18-31) tells us that many of the early Christians belonged to the lower social strata, and precisely for this reason were open to the experience of new hope, as we saw in the example of Bakhita. Yet from the beginning there were […]
Centessimus Annus ¶ 44, the Four Marks of the Church, and the Four Marks of the U.S. Constitution
I recently had occasion to revisit a blog post I wrote in April 2020 about the evaluation of separation of powers in Catholic social teaching: Centessimus Annus ¶ 44 and the U.S. Constitution. In it, I presented a multiple-choice question: * * * Four key commitments of the Constitution of the United States of America are […]