Catholic Social Teaching: The Official Documents

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
  
• Solicitudo 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
  

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development

• Considerations for an ethical discernment regarding some aspects of the present economic-financial system