By the end of his pontificate in April of 2005, Pope John Paul II completed one hundred and four major overseas journeys to countries on every inhabited continent, and inched forwa
Pius XI (1922-39) is the first pope to speak of social doctrine as a unified body of teachings which develop by way of clarity and application. In Quadragesimo anno, Pius said that
As I write this, in November I97I, people are dying in East Bengal from lack of food, shelter, and medical care. The suffering and death that are occurring there now are not inevit
On common accounts, we have a state of justice when everyone has their due. The study of justice has been concerned with what we owe one another, what obligations we might have to
Poverty is generally perceived as a moral problem that needs to be resolved. Philosophical discussions of poverty concern the conceptualization of poverty, its particular nature as
Power has always been a central category of political thought and theory; its counterparts, powerlessness or vulnerability, and more generally finitude, have seemingly been much le
God blesses those who come to the aid of the poor and rebukes those who turn away from them: "Give to him who begs from you, do not refuse him who would borrow from you"; "you rece
The principle of the universal destination of goods requires that the poor, the marginalized and in all cases those whose living conditions interfere with their proper growth shoul
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