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jueves, 27 de diciembre de 2012

Catholic Social Teaching affirms the social, not the conglomerate, the mass, the collective, the anthill, the Brownian motion of molecules in a jar


Leo XIII: “Without Faith, Liberty Degenerates into License”




The good and wise Pope Leo XIII never condemned an error
 without commending a truth.  



  • In this series on Catholic Social Teaching, then, I believe I should follow the Holy Father’s example.  
  • It’s easy to inveigh against what Leo condemns; more rewarding, though, to reveal the beauty of what he commends.  
  • In this essay, then, prescinding from his affirmation, in Aeterni patris (1879)of the principle that grace perfects our nature, his defense of Christian marriage inArcanum divinae (1880)and his condemnation of a radically secular state in Humanum genus(1884), I’d like to take a few small steps toward recovering what it means even to have a society, let alone a Catholic one.  
  • To this end, behold the famous painting by Jean-Francois Millet, The Angelus.
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