Tag: Redemptor Hominis
‘Redemptor Hominis’: more important than ever
Forty-seven years ago, Pope John Paul II issued his first encyclical, Redemptor Hominis (“The Redeemer of Man”). The first letter in the centuries-old encyclical tradition devoted to the Christian idea of the human person, Redemptor Hominis was also what Cardinal James Hickey once called the “program notes” for John Paul’s entire pontificate.
