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Fr. Eamonn McCarthy and Matthias Conroy continue their live reading of Dilexi Te, Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation on love for the poor, picking up at chapter four — “A History that Continues.” They work through the century of Catholic social doctrine from Rerum Novarum (Leo XIII’s landmark response to the Industrial Revolution) through John XXIII, Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio and his address to the United Nations, the Second Vatican Council’s teaching in Gaudium et Spes on the universal destination of earthly goods, and St. John Paul II’s Sollicitudo Rei Socialis and Laborem Exercens — with their insistence on the preferential option for the poor and human work as the essential key to the social question.

Matthias offers particularly sharp commentary on the Gaudium et Spes teaching that persons in extreme necessity are entitled to take what they need from the riches of others, using Jean Valjean as his illustration, while Fr. Eamonn draws out Pope Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate — that hunger is less a matter of lack of resources than of deficient institutions. City planning, billionaire wealth, the sic transit gloria mundi ritual at papal inaugurations and the word solidarity all get an airing.

L'articolo Dilexi Te 82-88 – St Teresa of Calcutta and the Models of Charity – Church Wisdom with Fr Eamonn McCarthy & Matthias Conroy proviene da Radio Maria.