In August 1996, the Hungarian Catholoc Church published an ancyclical for a more fair and fraternal world. Since then, it can be suspected that the church wants to take over the traditional role of the political left. The big question of teh future is, like in the past, whether the conservative, ideological-political role of teh church would be replaced by the need for a "social church" and the "service of society".

It is still a question to what extent the church provided support to society in periods of capitalist development, when exlusion, impoverishment and peripherisation were prominent features of social life. Can we count on charitative activities of the church, and under what conditions, during the contemporary socio-economic transformation?

Since the 16th Century pentecostalism is the first significant religious movement in Peru. The article shows how the emergence of this new tendency is linked to the neoliberal economic policies that have been prevailing since the 1980s.

The book was published in Hungary in 1996. Lorant summarises how Soros interprests teh operation of teh market mechanism and compares these views to those of Keynes and Balogh.

Jozsef Mindszenty (born Pehm) was a most controversial figure of the 20th century Hungarian history. As a local priest of Zalaegerszeg for a quarter of a century, and later as the bishop of Veszprem, even later, and most importantly as the cardinal of Eszregom, and finally as a political emigrant, he did his best to defend the semi-feudalistic social system of which time had gone.