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100th  Anniversary

CENTESIMUS ANNUS

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Centesimus Annus = “Hundredth Year” 

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Overview•

Created for the 1ooth year anniversary of “Rerum Novarum”. • Issued by Blessed John Paul II in 1991

• Examines contemporaneous political and economic issues

• Written during the last days of the Cold War

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Cold War-a tension of political and military powers in the western bloc• Focused on the downfall of communism in Europe

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Downfall of Communism

According to Blessed John Paul II (1991), there are three “decisivefactors” that lead to the downfall of communism:  

• The violation of the rights of workers

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 the inefficiency of the economic system, which preventedinitiative, private ownership and economic freedom

• the spiritual void of atheism, which had denied purpose andmeaning in life for younger generations

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PRINCIPLES

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Subsidiarity•

A community of a higher order should not interfere in the internallife of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of itsfunctions, but rather should support it in case of need and help tocoordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society,always with a view to the common good

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QUESTIONS?

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Question and Answer•

What is the name of thisencyclical?

• When and Who issued thisencyclical?

• One of the focus of this encyclicalis the downfall of what? BeSpecific

• Define Solidarity

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Centinimus Annus

• 1991; Blessed/Pope John Paul II

• Communism in Europe

• unity or agreement of feeling or

action, especially amongindividuals with a commoninterest; mutual support within agroup