While alienation exists in different forms, “there is no worse form of alienation than to feel uprooted, belonging to no one.” (Pope Francis) What are two dangerous forms of alienation?

Radical Secularism is driven by this skeptical relativism which basically holds that there is no such thing as an objective truth. There’s just what I believe, you believe, a group, a nation believes; nothing is objectively true.

The human environment involves “the moral structure with which [man] has been endowed.” (Pope Francis)

In his desire to have and to enjoy rather than to be and to grow, man consumes the resources of the earth and his own life in an excessive and disordered way.

YES – there is a right to private property…AND – human nature can lead to the distortion of that right. The right to private property is subordinated to the right to common use, ​to the fact that goods are meant for everyone.

Pope St. John Paul II established the need to maintain a vibrant and critical interaction among economics, culture, and politics, emphasizing that culture is the most important: “All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.”