Centesimus Annus at 35: A Modernist Blueprint Disguised as Catholic Social Teaching
George Weigel, writing for the National Catholic Register on May 11, 2026, offers a retrospective commentary on the encyclical Centesimus Annus, issued thirty-five years prior by the apostate Karol Wojtyła, known as “John Paul II.” Weigel presents this document as a profound warning about “freedom detached from virtue and moral culture,” praising its vision of democracy and the market as requiring a “vibrant public moral culture” guided by the Church. However, a thorough examination through the lens of uncompromising Catholic doctrine reveals Centesimus Annus not as a bulwark of truth, but as a sophisticated instrument of the very Modernism it purports to critique—a document that, while paying lip service to divine order, ultimately subordinates the supernatural mission of the Church to the immanentist framework of liberal democracy and human rights, thereby advancing the revolutionary agenda of the post-conciliar abomination.








