Spes Salvi (Saved in Hope) by Pope Benedict XVI This encyclical beautifully explores ... Threshold of Hope” by Pope John Paul II In this book-length interview, John Paul II addresses the ...
This commonality of ideals and principles was perhaps articulated most effectively in an encyclical titled "On the Development of Peoples" disseminated by Pope Paul VI in 1967. In the late 1960s, when ...
Until this encyclical, the death penalty was viewed as sometimes permissible as a means of protecting society. The universal catechism--book of rules--for Catholics had affirmed the right of the ...