Vernon J. Bourke

Vernon J. Bourke (1907–1998) was a Canadian-born American professor, author, and Thomist philosopher. His area of expertise was ethics, and especially the moral philosophy of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas.

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The Twilight of Socialism

In a perceptive article in Newsweek (June 20, 1983) Kenneth Woodward calls the present Pope a socialist and cites Ronald Modras as supporting this judgment. Gregory Baum gives the same impression in the New Catholic World (July/August, 1983). Indeed Baum’s commentary on the Encyclical On Labor (1981) describes the Pope’s socialism as, 1) moral, 2) … Read more

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