The individual today is often suffocated between the two poles represented by the state and the marketplace. At times it seems that he exists only as a producer and consumer of goods or as an object of state administration. In these words from Centesimus Annus, Pope John Paul II presents the fundamental problem of which I propose to speak in this brief essay.
Avery Cardinal Dulles, "Centesimus Annus and the Renewal of Culture," Journal of Markets & Morality 2, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 1-7