Contents
FOREWORD V II
PART I
CHAPTER 1 Sublimis Deus (Full Text)
On the Enslavement and Evangelization of the Indians
CHAPTER 2 Rerum Novarum (Full Text)
The Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor
CHAPTER 3 Quadragesimo Anno (Excerpt)
On the Reconstruction of Social Order
CHAPTER 4 Mater et Magistra (Excerpt)
On Christianity and Social Progress
CHAPTER 5 Pacem in Terris (Excerpt)
On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice,
Charity, and Liberty
CHAPTER 6 Dignitatis Humanae (Full Text)
On the Right of the Person and of Communities to
Social and Civil Freedom in Matters Religious
CHAPTER 7 Gaudium et Spes (Excerpt)
On the Church in the Modern World
CHAPTER 8 Populorum Progressio (Excerpt)
On the Development of Peoples
CHAPTER 9 Octogesima Adveniens (Excerpt)
On the Eightieth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum
CHAPTER 10 Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (Excerpt)
The Concern of the Church for the Social Order
CHAPTER 11 Centesimus Annus (Full Text)
On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum
CHAPTER 12 Evangelium Vitae (Excerpt)
On the Value and Inviolability of Human Life
CHAPTER 13 Caritas in Veritate (Excerpt)
On Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth
CHAPTER 14 Laudato Si’ (Excerpt)
On Care for Our Common Home