The Teachings Of Modern Roman Catholicism On Law, Politics, And Human Nature Book

Foreword     xi
Acknowledgments     xiii
Contributors     xv
Introduction   John Witte Jr.   Frank S. Alexander     xvii
Introduction to Modern Catholicism   Russell Hittinger     1
Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903)
Commentary   Russell Hittinger     39
Original Source Materials
A Twofold Pedagogy     76
Law and Liberty     78
Plural Societies     81
Church and Civil Authority     86
Political "Forms"     89
Belgium, France, and the United States     93
The Rule of Christ and Christian Virtue     95
Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)
Commentary   Patrick McKinley Brennan     106
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Inaugural Address to the Second International Conference of UNESCO     148
Redeeming the Time     149
Man and the State     151
Church and State     155
God and the Permission of Evil     158
Natural Law and Moral Law     160
The Rights of Man and Natural Law     169
Scholasticism and Politics     171
Moral Philosophy     178
John Courtney Murray, S.J. (1904-1967)
Commentary   Angela C. Carmella     181
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On Natural Law     212
On America     216
On Social Conversation     217
On the Public Consensus     218
On Historical Consciousness     219
On the Distinction Between Law and Morality     220
On the Limited Efficacy of Censorship Statutes     222
On Civil Unity     224
On the Church-State Distinction     226
On the First Amendment Religion Clauses     227
On Coercion of Conscience     227
On the Scope of the Right to Religious Freedom     228
On the Human Right to Religious Freedom     229
On the Church's Teachings on Religious Freedom     231
On Leo XIII     231
On the Vatican II Declaration of Religious Freedom     233
On Civil Freedom and the Secularity of the State     235
On the Difficulties of Vatican II     236
On the Church's Tardy Recognition of Religious Freedom     236
On John XXIII     236
Pope John XXIII (1881-1963)
Commentary   Leslie Griffin     238
Original Source Materials
Announcement of Ecumenical Council     267
Ad Petri Cathedram (On Truth, Unity, and Peace in a Spirit of Charity)     267
Mater et Magistra (On Christianity and Social Progress)     268
Opening Address to the Council     272
Pacem in Terris (On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity, and Liberty)     272
Unitatis Redintegratio (Decree on Ecumenism)     282
Nostra Aetate (Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions)     283
Gaudium et Spes (On the Church in the Modern World)     284
Dignitatis Humanae (Declaration on Religious Freedom)     284
Gustavo Gutierrez (b. 1928)
Commentary   Paul E. Sigmund     287
Original Source Materials
Notes for a Theology of Liberation     305
A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation     312
The Power of the Poor in History     320
Theology and the Social Sciences     324
On Job, God-Talk, and the Suffering of the Innocent     327
A Theology of Liberation, Revised Edition     329
Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
Commentary   David Gregory     336
Original Source Materials
The Catholic Worker Collection     368
Dividing the Workers     372
Unionizing the Unemployed     374
Reasons for Child Labor Law      375
Vigilantes Mob Sharecroppers' Mass Meeting     376
The Catholic Worker and Labor     377
Catholics in Unions     380
The Catholic Worker: 25th Anniversary Issue     382
Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
Commentary   Robert P. George   Gerard V. Bradley     392
Original Source Materials
Dominus Iesus (Declaration on the Unicity and Salvific University of Jesus Christ and the Church)     431
Instruction on Certain Aspects of the "Theology of Liberation"     434
Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation     436
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (On Social Concern)     442
Centesimus Annus (On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum)     448
Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life)     452
Copyright Information     471
Index to Biblical Citations     475
General Index     477