I have read the letters of your piety , in which you have requested me to make known to you the events of my times relating to myself, and to give an account of that most impious heresy of the Arians , in consequence of which I have endured these sufferings, and also of the manner of the death of Arius . With two out of your three demands I have readily undertaken to comply, and have sent to your Godliness what I wrote to the Monks; from which you will be able to learn my own history as well as that of the heresy . But with respect to the other matter, I mean the death, I debated with myself for a long time, fearing lest any one should suppose that I was exulting in the death of that man. But yet, since a disputation which has taken place among you concerning the heresy , has issued in this question, whether Arius died after previously communicating with the Church ; I therefore was necessarily desirous of giving an account of his death, as thinking that the question woul
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"The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modern times with 'communism' or 'socialism'. Moreover, in the practice of "capitalism," it rejected individualism and the absolute primacy of the law of the market over human labor. The regulation of the economy exclusively through centralized planning perverts social bonds at the base; Its regulation solely by the law of the market goes against social justice, "for there are many human needs that cannot be met by the market." It is necessary to advocate a rational regulation of the market and of economic initiatives, according to a just hierarchy of values and with a view to the common good." (CCC, 2425).