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Jacques Maritain  

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  • Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) of France was one of the most influential Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century, and he dominates Catholic social thought as a defender of human rights and freedom. Born in Paris, he was brought up as a liberal Protestant but converted to Catholicism in 1906 at the age of twenty-four. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Maritain, Jacques]

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