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With an equal emphasis on every word in the title—and with a distinctly American perspective—Himes and his distinguished associate editors and contributors, have assembled the most thorough and authoritative assessment of modern Roman Catholic social teaching to date, likely to remain the touchstone volume for decades. This culmination of many years of effort by twenty stellar scholars has...

“ ‘communal’ ” liberalism because it suggests a political theory that justifies policies of freedom, tolerance, and pluralism by reference to the good of the political community and its subcommunities, not only by reference to the rights of individuals.”25 Drawing on the work of Jacques Maritain in his classic treatise, The Person and the Common Good, Stiltner argues that we exist in and for communities (which are not, as some strands in liberal theory often have it, merely instrumental for personal
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