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Negative Impacts Of NAFTA Regarding Catholic Social Teaching

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Failure in addressing the problems above in the negotiation led to a credulous view from many Catholic communities toward free trade agreements. An article from America: The Jesuit Review focusing on morality of the Trans-Pacific Partnership reflects the negative impacts of NAFTA regarding Catholic Social Teaching. The author quoted from “Caritas in Veritate” of Pope Francis: “The repeated calls issued within the Church's social doctrine, beginning with Rerum Novarum, for the promotion of workers' associations that can defend their rights must therefore be honored today even more than in the past, as a prompt and far-sighted response to the urgent need for new forms of cooperation at the international level, as well as the local level.” According
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