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Explore the documented teachings, encyclicals, and spiritual writings of three great witnesses.
St. John Paul II
Personalist evangelizer, defender of human dignity
Benedict XVI
Guardian of truth, faith seeking understanding, liturgical beauty
Francis
Missionary of mercy, pastor of peripheries, culture of encounter
Social Justice
The person at the center of economic life, charity in truth, and fraternity as the foundation of justice.
St. John Paul II
"The human person must be the principle, subject, and end of all social institutions." The priority of labor over capital, solidarity as commitment to the common good.
Centesimus Annus (1991)
Benedict XVI
Without truth, charity becomes philanthropy or ideology. Development must be integral: the whole person and all persons. The logic of gift must penetrate economic life.
Caritas in Veritate (2009)
Francis
Universal fraternity at the center: without fraternity, liberty and equality degenerate. Prophetic critique of "trickle-down" economics and the throwaway culture.
Fratelli Tutti (2020)
John Paul II supplied the anthropological foundation (the person is the measure), Benedict the theological architecture (charity in truth), Francis the prophetic application (walk with the poor). Each presupposes and extends the others.
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