Populorum progressio
| Populorum progressio Latin for 'The Development of Peoples'Encyclical of Pope Paul VI | |
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| Signature date | 26 March 1967 |
| Subject | The need to promote the development of peoples |
| Number | 5 of 7 of the pontificate |
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Populorum progressio is an encyclical written by Pope Paul VI on the topic of "the development of peoples" and that the economy of the world should serve mankind and not just the few. It was released on 26 March 1967.
It touches on a variety of principles of
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"Humanism"
Paul VI espoused a "transcendent humanism which surpasses its nature and bestows new fullness of life", which he described as a 'new humanism'. Drawing on the Integral humanism of Jacques Maritain's L'humanisme intégral, Paul VI declared that the "ultimate goal is a full-bodied humanism". Citing Blaise Pascal's Pensées:
True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man. Man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself. In the words of Pascal: "Man infinitely surpasses man."[1]
Legacy
Twenty years later,
In 2004, the UK-based nongovernmental development organisation
In 2009,
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