The Modern Papacy (Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers)

The Modern Papacy offers one of the most important and influential strands of conservative, and perhaps libertarian, political thought. This volume focuses on the social and political thought of the previous and current Popes, John Paul II (1920 — 2005) and Benedict XVI (1927-). It focuses on the development of Catholic thinking in the context of the emergence of modern capitalism, mass democracy and Communism in the twentieth century.