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Catholic Social Teaching: Toward a More Humane Economy | Prof. Andrew Abela

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Catholic Social Teaching

Catholic social teaching talks about something called the structure of sin a structure of sin is actually originally a Marxist concept that no Marx wasn't wrong about everything right so that church has taken and describes as the result of personal sins this is where we differ from the Marxist right Marxists identify structures and say those are unjust structures and they're evil. Catholic social doctrine sometimes tend to degenerate into policy debates and I say ultimately I find that to be not very helpful. There's a danger to think that you can fight fire with fire here so we have an unjust structure there let's put a just structure and just smash it away, he says.

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