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Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

of the Church’s mission to the world. He emphasizes that all Christians are to engage the problems and issues of the world today, advocating what was sometimes referred to as the Cardijn method: “observe, judge, act.”12 However, his application of this method was quite different from that of John XXIII, who also referred to it in Mater et magistra. For Pope John the method was a way for the faithful to apply the universal principles of Catholic social teaching to a particular situation. However,
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