Tag: Capitalism
George Weigel: What St John Paul II meant by ‘free economy’
In a recent article on the social doctrine of St John Paul II in the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica, Father Fernando de la Iglesia Viguiristi SJ, had this to say about one facet of John Paul’s epic 1991 encyclical, Centesimus Annus: “To the key question, ‘After the collapse of communism, is capitalism the only alternative left?’ Wojtyła [ie, John Paul II] replied ...
