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 […]
Centessimus Annus § 3: Reading and Re-Reading with the Church’s Tradition
Near the beginning of Centesimus Annus, St. John Paul II sets out three different kinds of movement in his “re-reading” of Rerum Novarum. One is to “‘look back’ at the text itself.” The purpose of this is “to discover anew the richness of the fundamental principles which it formulated for dealing with the question of the […]