Sentences with phrase «papal social teaching»

Although this understanding of the most basic purposes of law and government has been constantly affirmed in the tradition of papal social teaching, it is by no means peculiar to Catholicism.

It has been a central feature of the tradition of papal social teaching.

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Or Russell Hittinger's path - breaking «Two Thomisms, Two Modernities»: «The past century and a half of papal teaching on modern times often seems a tangle: any number of different strands — theology, Thomistic philosophy, social theory, economics — all snarled together.

The past century and a half of papal teaching on modern times often seems a tangle: any number of different strands — theology, Thomistic philosophy, social theory, economics — all snarled together.

They are our authentic heritage from the Hebrew prophets, the Gospels and the early church (see, for example, Charles Avila's Ownership: Early Christian Teaching [Orbis, 1983]; they are themes that were anticipated in part by developments in the papal «social encyclicals» from 1891 to the present, and by the Vatican Council's 1965 pastoral constitution «The Church and the World Today.»

The Council is appointed by the pope, and its primary charge is «to engage in action - oriented studies based on both the papal and episcopal social teaching of the Church.»