Życie gospodarczo-społeczne u progu III tysiąclecia. Analiza w perspektywie „Novo millennio ineunte” Jana Pawła II

Abstract

The article aims at presenting the most important challenges that contemporary economy faces at the threshold of the third millennium, which can be seen in the perspective of John Paul Il’s Apostolic letter Novo millennio ineunte. In this context the key task seems to be the one concerning formation of a new spirituality of communion, first in an intra-Church dimension, which next must be complemented with a social one [I], This will be done especially through undertaking works of active and factual love towards every man, and in the economic dimension mainly through a new «imagination of charity» and globalisation of solidarity [II]. The next important task of the economic-social life is a broadly understood postulate of humanisation of economy [III]. The problem of clearing of the poorest countries’ debts [IV] and the question of the way the challenges [V] facing the economy of the III millennium presented in the article should be met, is dealt with separately.