Hollis, Christopher

"This book is not concerned with a description of personalities or to any large extent with a description of how things happened. Its task is the rather pedestrian one of summarizing what was decided at the Council translated, as it were, into unofficial language. We think that behind the generalities there is room for such a work, for many have found it difficult to follow its unfamiliar proceedings, so different from those of a parliament or a congress." [Chapter 1].

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The purpose of this book is to describe the teaching of the Catholic Church on economics--the effect which the Catholic Church has had and ought to have had on the development of the world's economy. However, there is in fact nothing in the Gospels to suggest that the Lord was at all interested in setting out an economic system. The Church does not have a specific economic position, but it does point out the immoral and anti-religious aspects that pervade systems such as fascism and communism, and which are sometimes present in other doctrines.