“Centesimus Annus”Hundredth Anniversary

St.DominicaGroup 12

Von Xavier G. TejedorSocorro Magella Suganob

Francheska Gayle EvangelistaAndrea Blancaflor

US invasion of Panama

1990: South Africa’s Nelson Mandela freed from prison after 26 years

Background

Lithuania declares independence from the USSR

Iraq invades Kuwait; US and allies send troops to Persian Gulf

Background

Unification of East and West Germany

1991: Persian Gulf War, Kuwait liberated, civil war in Iraq

Background

“Centesimus Annus” - which is Latin for “Hundredth Anniversary” of “Rerum Novarum”

May 15, 1991

Pope John Paul II

Introduction

One of the 14 encyclicals Pope John Paul II has issued

Written during the last days of cold war

Written to pay homage to Pope Leo XIIIRereading of Rerum Novarum Confirms the relevance and impact of

Pope Leo XIII’s teaching about economic and social life

Introduction

Good Effects Pope John Paul II confirms the

relevance and impact of Pope Leo XIII's teachings about economic and social life proven by the developments in the European countries.

Points out that the fall of Communism was due to the spiritual void brought about by atheism and because of the violations of the rights of the workers and the inefficiency of the economic system.

Indicates capitalism as the cause of the unprecedented poverty now suffered by the billions of people on earth, especially in the Third World.

ContentBad Effects Fall of Communism

Spiritual Void

Violation of the rights of workers

Inefficiency of the economic system

Condemnation of the dictatorial regimes

Horrors of the communist regimes throughout the world. 

Good Effects It states that within the most advance

economies there exist some problems that threaten and damage the physical and spiritual health of the person.

Calls on the State to be the agent of justice for the poor and to protect human rights of all its citizens

Insist that the relation between the state and its citizens must be seen in terms of the "hierarchy of the true values of human existence“

The right of private property

A workman's wages should be sufficient to enable him to support himself, his wife and his children.

"Humane" working hours and adequate free-time

ContentBad Effects Defence of private property

rights and the right to form private associations, including labor unions

Good Effects Right of private initiative and

ownership

The right to a just wage

The kingdom of God cannot be confused with any temporal kingdom

To defend and promote the dignity and rights of human persons regardless of personal convictions

Content

• Every individual has a natural right to procure what is required to live; and the poor can procure that in no other way than by what they can earn through their work.

• Society and the state must ensure wage levels adequate for the maintenance of the worker and his family, including a certain amount for savings.

Principles

Principles• The Church must continue to defend the weakest

and ensure the necessary minimum support for the unemployed worker.

• Full development not only refers to economic progress, but also as a process that has a human element

• The social message of the Gospel is motivation for action to work towards full development.

Principles

• Lessening of corruption• Lessening of discrimination• Attainment of equal rights

among employees• Achieving peace in the

world• Better world• Stronger faith to God• Atheism will be somehow

lessened• Less gap between the rich

and poor

Conclusion