06 May 2021

The Popes and Democracy - PART II. Specific Concepts 16. Can Man Become Free, Thinking and Responsible?

A claim commonly made by modern democrats is that man can be "educated" to really become free, thinking, and responsible. Let us see what the Popes think about this: "Will that great day ever come to pass? Unless human nature could be changed, will it ever come? To sum up, such is the theory, one could say the dream of the Sillon; and that is what its teaching aims at: what it calls the democratic education of the people..." (St. Pius X "Our Apostolic Mandate") "(The aim of this education) is rather to induce in them (the children), and to awaken in them, by every possible means a kind of civic sense, which is held to be indispensable for the political future of the country." (Pius XII "Summi Pontificatus")

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