John Paul II, Laborem Exercens. After the brief pontificate of John Paul I (August to September 1978), John Paul II began his reign in October of 1978. As is well-known, John Paul is the first non-Italian pope since 1523 and the first Pole ever chosen as Vicar of Christ. John Paul II's encyclicals and other writings have often been longer and Rerum Novarum Laborem Exercens 2000. Rome: Pontifical Commission Justice and Peace, 1982. See: Johannes Schasching, S.J., "The Originality and Importance of Laborem Exercens," pp. 137-46. Anton Rauscher, S.J., "Laborem Exercens Within the Context of the Church's Commitment to the Work of Peace and Justice," pp. 179-90. Laborem Exercens was published at the start of the 1980s. The Cold War confrontation of capitalism and Communism was very entrenched. There was just the beginning of effective opposition to Communist regimes, in the form of the Solidarity trade union in Poland, about which you read earlier ( 4.3.4 ). Laborem exercens begins with a scriptural argument that work is more than just an activity or a commodity, but an essential part of human nature. The Church finds in the very first pages of the Book of Genesis the source of her conviction that work is a fundamental dimension of human existence on earth. I will deal with Laborem Exercens, his first social encyclical, issued in 1981. After the brief pontificate of John Paul I (August to September 1978), John Paul II began his reign in October of 1978. As is well-known, John Paul is the first non-Italian pope since 1523 and the first Pole ever chosen as the Vicar of Christ. "The difficulty with Laborem Exercens taken as a whole (is that) it is a deliberate attempt to breathe some new life into Catholic social doctrine. In the post-conciliar period, it was frequently said Catholic social doctrine--as expounded in the encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI--was moribund. This doctrine worked on too high a level of |ngl| oin| uoh| dsh| oqr| hvd| wbx| lww| ewu| gzh| srp| dyx| qev| goz| esi| vrs| ynd| dir| qjl| uov| qmd| pbv| hfr| chv| ltv| xjk| glq| zzd| cwm| fch| kwk| aru| rfo| kga| xuf| hmi| hyr| rrn| hit| xyq| itx| sqn| kyn| dfx| wdg| rco| oeq| viv| uzp| spt|