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We are going to talk about social doctrine of the church.

I don't know if you are familiar with it.

This term social doctrine refers to the teaching of the popes

on economic, social and political

questions since 1891.

It is this body of teaching, above all, that we will be exploring together this evening.

For those who are not yet familiar with it and would like to study it more

deeply, I recommend referring up this book, the Campandium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.

I think it's easy to find it on Amazon or on libraries as well.

You can have many information about this social doctrine of the church in this book.

But this evening we are going to talk about a specific topic,

if the Catholic Church anti-capitalist.

Can you hear me?

It's okay?

And you understand my bad English.

My French accent is not a problem. Okay. Thank you.

So I would like to mention that this topic is actually related to Pope Francis Pontificate,

but also to the church social doctrine. In France, at the

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