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Marie-Dominique Chenu - Preface (The Social Doctrine of The Church as Ideology, 1979)

Marie-Dominique Chenu - Preface (The Social Doctrine of The Church as Ideology, 1979)

La doctrine sociale de l'Église comme idéologie (Éditions du Cerf, 1979)

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A student from the University of Paris, in need of a thesis on "social Catholicism", having conceived of asking a priest from the Archdiocese of Paris, received the following simple response: "The social doctrine of the Church? It does not exist."

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