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Encyclicals:
An "encyclical" in Latin refers to a "circulating letter". The following list of encyclicals has become the widely accepted, though unofficial, body of documents commonly referred to as "Catholic Social Teaching."
An "encyclical" in Latin refers to a "circulating letter". The following list of encyclicals has become the widely accepted, though unofficial, body of documents commonly referred to as "Catholic Social Teaching."
- Rerum Novarum (On the Condition of Labor) -- Pope Leo XIII, 1891
Outline summary | Full text - Quadragesimo Anno (After Forty Years) -- Pope Pius XI, 1931
Outline summary | Full text - Mater et Magistra (Christianity and Social Progress) -- Pope John XXIII, 1961
Outline summary | Full text - Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth) -- Pope John XXIII, 1963
Outline summary | Full text - Gaudium et Spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World) Vatican Council II, 1965
Outline summary | Full text - Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples) -- Pope Paul VI, 1967
Full text - Octogesima Adveniens (A Call to Action) -- Pope Paul VI, 1971
Outline summary | Full text - Justicia in Mundo (Justice in the World) -- Synod of Bishops, 1971
Outline summary | Full text - Laborem Exercens (On Human Work) -- Pope John Paul II, 1981
Outline summary | Full text - Solicitudo Rei Socialis (On Social Concern) -- Pope John Paul II, 1987
Outline summary | Full text - Centesimus Annus (The Hundredth Year) -- Pope John Paul II, 1991
Outline summary | Full text - Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love) -- Pope Benedict XVI, 2005
Outline summary | Full text - Caritas in Veritate (Love in Truth) --Pope Benedict XVI, 2009
Outline summary | Full text - Laudato Si (Care of God's Creation). - Pope Francis 2015 Full Text
- Apostolic Exhortation on The Joy of Love Full Text
- Encyclical Letter, Fratelli Tutti http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html