It remains to be asked whether any of this would assist the Council fathers in our fictitious ‘thought-experiment’. The insistence of CST upon the ‘universal destination of earthly goods’ remains: property rights must give way to the needs of the exigent poor. The very fact of this concession at the heart of Catholic teaching is surely significant, before we try to specify the conditions under which it might be activated. There is here and in recent encyclicals an unequivocal insistence on a caesura between the logic of the market, however benign, and the imperative of the gospel.