Description
This newly revised edition of the classic textbook offers students and scholars get entry to to multiple hundred years of official statements of the Catholic Church on social issues. With documents starting from Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum (1891) to Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ (2015), that is the one most comprehensive collection to be had of the principle documents of Catholic social thought. Each and every document is preceded by an introductory essay and helpful notes, making it a fantastic teaching aid in addition to reference tool.