Catholic
Perspectives on Social and Political Issues
Meeting
III October 8, 2001
The Church in the World
(Continued)
The Great Social Encyclicals
The Question of Peace and War
The
Church in the World (continued
)
Church Governance Issues: Celibacy, Married Clergy, and
Ordination of Women
The Organization of the Church
The Voice of the Church
The Authority of the Church
The Grand Themes of Catholic
Social Teaching
The Dignity of the Human
Person
The Call to Live in Community - concern for the common good
Rights and Responsibilities of the Human Person
The Dignity of Work
Option of the Poor and Vulnerable
Solidarity
The Great Social Encyclicals
Rerum Novarum (1891) On the Condition of Labor
Quadregesimo Anno (1931) On the Reconstruction of the Social Order
Mater et Magistra (1961) Christianity and Social Progress
Pacem in Terris
(1963) Peace on Earth
Popularum Progressio
(1967) The Development of Peoples
Octogesima Adveniens (1971) A Call to Action
Laborem Exercens (1981) On Human Work
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (1987) On the Social Concerns of the
Church
Gaudiem et Spes (1965) The Church in the Modern World
The
Question of Peace and War
Nonviolence as a Response
The Doctrine of the Just War