Abstract

The philosophical principles of liberalism dating back to the Enlightenment caused that the history of mutual relations between liberalism and the makes Christian social thinking above all an epoch of debate. All that also influenced the evaluation of the economic order proposed by the liberal tradition. In the judgment of the Church, liberal capitalism was not the right answer to which social and economic needs of society, although you are in the setting could see an evolution from both sides. Market capitalism sees them Need to open up to the demands of Catholic social teaching. Seems from the other side to understand the reflection in the official documents of the Church on the economic order that Need to adopt some principles worked out by the liberal tradition. The last Social encyclical by Pope John Paul II Centesimus annus expresses this clearly.