Social Teaching

The Popes and Vatican II on
Catholic Social Teaching

Pope Leo XIII

• Rerum Novarum, On Capital and Labor

Pius XI

• Quadragesimo Anno, On Reconstruction of the Social Order

Blessed John XXIII

• Mater et Magistra, Christianity and Social Progress
• Pacem in Terris, Peace on Earth

Vatican II

• Gaudium et Spes, Pastoral Constitution On the Church In the Modern World

Venerable Paul VI

• Populorum Progressio, On the Development of Peoples
• Octogesima Adveniens, On the Eightieth Anniversary

Blessed John Paul II

• Laborem Exercens, On Human Work
• Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, On Social Concern
• Centesimus Annus, On Rerum Novarum
• Evangelium Vitae, The Gospel of Life

Pope Benedict XVI

• Deus Caritas Est, God is Love
• Caritas in Veritate, Charity in Truth 

Pope Francis

• Evangelii Gaudium
• Laudato Si' On care for our Common Home 

Council for Justice and Peace

• Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church