Pope John Paul II Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/pope-john-paul-ii/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 24 Oct 2020 11:00:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Pope John Paul II Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/pope-john-paul-ii/ 32 32 Pope Francis’ Curious Encyclical, Part 2 https://mind-at-work.com/pope-francis-curious-encyclical-part-2/ Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:56:48 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4136 Summary of Part 1: In Rerum Novarum (1891) Pope Leo XIII wrote: “The first and most fundamental principle . . . if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.” [Paragraph 15. Emphasis added] The solution to poverty, he argued, was not to redistribute wealth but to increase ownership. In [...]

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