Growth of C S T - Part II
Period 1960 +

Note: This article continues with and extends the article of Maceoin in NCR (1997)
MacEoin wrote:
John XIII accepted the actual and objective impulse of contemporary society, its intense drive to socialization and collectivization. He saw both capitalism and socialism (of the Soviet type) as evolving toward a kind of collectivization that produces alienation. He believed we had acquired a level of control of the material world that should not be left to a few to manipulate for private gain; that such things as nuclear energy, automation, cybernetics, conquest of space and instant communications were the inheritance of all, so that all should share in their control and benefits.
The development of liberation theology in the late 1960s provided new insights. It rejected the European approach to theology by deductive reasoning from abstract first principles in favor of a praxis, a frame of action derived from observation and analysis of facts and of one's own reality, a process out of which has grown the preferential option for the poor.

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Start off with John 13 - he talks of natural law (so did Pius XII). See is Mater et Magistra (1961) and Pacem e Terris (1963). Then move on Vat II docs.

End up with intro comments on Lib Theo - which requires a separate article - not part of CST.