Father John Courtney Murray was trying to historicize Catholic Social Teaching even though our true popes had condemned religious liberty and separation of Church and State as heretical in se as matters of principle while, of course, conceding the existence of those heresies as a fait accompli in the pluralist, religious indifferentist state of Modernity. Our true popes never ceased condemning these heresies while making allowance for Holy Mother Churchs childen in such countries to make use of the constitutional and legal structures under which they lived to practice their Faith and to profess It openly without inteference or molestation from the civil authorities. Father Murray sought to historicize Catholic Social Teaching even though such historicization, which asserts that part of a particular teaching was applicable only to the situation that existed at a certain time and thus was not binding upon the Church in perpetuity, had been condemned by Pope Pius XII in Humani Generis, August 12, 1950, which was, of course, simply a reiteration of the condemnations of the evolution of dogma promulgated at the [First] Vatican Council by Pope Pius IX and contained in the teaching of Pope Saint Pius X, most particularly in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, September 8, 1907. Father Murrays efforts to historicize Catholic Social Teaching did not escape the notice of young priest who had been ordained on June 29, 1951, the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, in Munich, Germany, named Father Joseph Alois Ratzinger, who had been trained in his seminary years by the new theologians in this exact same methodology. Father Joseph Alois Ratzinger has been perfectly consistent on this historicization throughout the course of his priestly career, including his time as Cardinal Ratzinger and as Pope Benedict XVI:
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