Centesimus annus
   Chap., §
 1   2,  18    |       world. The logic of power blocs or empires, denounced in


Sollicitudo rei socialis
   Chap., §
 2   2,  10    |      the world into ideological blocs a division already existing
 3   3,  20    |       existence of two opposing blocs, commonly known as the East
 4   3,  20    |   geopolitical. Each of the two blocs tends to assimilate or gather
 5   3,  20    | opposition and give rise to two blocs of armed forces, each suspicious
 6   3,  20    |       effects of this "logic of blocs" and of the respective "
 7   3,  20    |         tension between the two blocs which began at the end of
 8   3,  20    | existence and opposition of the blocs continue to be a real and
 9   3,  22    |    development.~Each of the two blocs harbors in its own way a
10   3,  23    |      opposition between the two blocs.~Today, the reality is that
11   3,  23    |       to enable each of the two blocs to overtake the other and
12   3,  24    |        even the barriers of the blocs. It knows how to overcome
13   5,  36    |     world which is divided into blocs, sustained by rigid ideologies,
14   5,  36(65)|       even of whole nations and blocs of nations, she knows and
15   5,  37    |    attitude of sin; nations and blocs can do so too. And this
16   5,  39    |         the world into opposing blocs, combine to produce the
17   5,  39    |  abandonment of the politics of blocs, the sacrifice of all forms