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MAJOR DOCUMENTS OF MODERN CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHINGS

LATIN TITLE ENGLISH TRANSLATION PUBLICATION SOURCE MAJOR CHALLENGE MAJOR NEW MESSAGE OR
YEAR ADDRESSED IDEA
Rerum Novarum The Condition of Labor 1891 Pope Leo XIII Industrialization, “family wage”, workers’ rights
urbanization, poverty
Quadrogesimo Anno After 40 Years or The 1931 Pope Pius XI Great Depression, Subsidiarity as a guide to gov’t
Reconstruction of the Social Communism and Fascist intervention
Order dictatorships
Mater et Magistra Christianity and Social 1961 Pope John XXIII Technological advances Global justice between rich
Progress and poor nations
Pacem in Terris Peace on Earth 1963 Pope John XXIII Arms race, the threat of A philosophy of human rights
nuclear war and social responsibilities
Gaudium et Spes Pastoral Construction on the 1965 2nd Vatican Council Younger generations Church must scrutinize
Church in the Modern questioning traditional external “signs of the times”
World values
Populorum Progressio The Development of 1967 Pope Paul VI Widening gap between rich “Development is a new word
Peoples and poor nations for peace”
Octogesima Adveniens A Call to Action on the 80th 1971 Pope Paul VI Urbanization marginalizes Lay Catholics must focus on
Anniversary of Rerum vast multitudes political action to combat
Novarum injustices
Justitia in Mundo Justice in the World 1971 Synod of Bishops Structural injustices and “Justice is a constitutive
oppression inspire liberation dimension of the preaching of
movements the gospel”
Evangelii Nuntiandi Evangelization in the 1975 Pope Paul VI Cultural problems of The salvation promised by
Modern World atheism, secularism, Jesus offers liberation from all
consumerism oppression
Laborem Exercens On Human Work 1981 Pope John Paul II Capitalism and Communism Work is the key to the “social
treat workers as mere question” and to human
instruments of production dignity
Sollicitudo rei Socialis On Social Concern 1987 Pope John Paul II Persistent “structures of sin” are
underdevelopment, division responsible for global
of world into blocs injustices
Centesimus Annus On the 100th Anniversary of 1991 Pope John Paul II Collapse of Communism in Combat consumeristic greed in
Rerum Novarum Eastern Europe new “knowledge economy”
Deus est Caritas God is Love 2006 Pope Benedict XVI Mission/Love of People of Involvement in mission
God and Church
Caritas in Veritate Love in Truth 2009 Pope Benedict XVI Integral Human
Development

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