Bishop Williamson

Introductory conference on the theology of John Paul II based on the works of Professor Dörmann. Explores the Pope’s understanding of the Assisi meeting in 1986.

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His Excellency discusses what the proper function of the State is, how the State’s business is to protect the poor, the idea of the common good and the use of unions.

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His Excellent comments on the inequality in society, how the Church does not promote revolutions, brief mention is also made of Freud and Darwin, and the welfare state.

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His Excellency discusses Leo XIII’s encyclical on the labor question, usury, private property, back to the land movement, and the artificiality of suburban life.

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His Excellency explores the nature of the ordinary and extraordinary Magisterium, nature of biblical inerrancy, and briefly mentions some of the leading theologians as Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the philosopher Maurice Blondel.

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His Excellency continues his conference on Communism and then goes into the encyclical Humani Generis of Pius XII. Explores the nature of neo-modernism, Henri de Lubac’s thought, and the modernists’ desire to “return” to the Early Church.

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