We are one human family, yet we are born as members of a particular nation. Christians are reborn as members of Christ's ...

In such a simple yet deeply moving hymn, the innovative songwriter known as “Fr. Honti” grasped the main essence of the 20,266-word encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (The Social Concerns of the ...

Natural Right. Populorum Progressio shifts considerably to the left of previous papal encyclicals in its criticism of private property. In his celebrated Rerum Novarum of 1891, Pope Leo XIII ...

Firstly, Caritas in veritate and the evolution of the Concept of Integral Ecology: Introduced first, as “natural ecology”, into the Church’s social teaching by St. Pope Paul VI (Populorum progressio), ...

Around 1,300 families turned to Caritas Malta for support in the past year, while the organisation’s community centre has helped around 700 people battling drug addiction, Caritas Director ...

Saying he wanted to promote even "stronger links" between the dioceses of Latin America and the Caribbean and the poorest people in their territories, Pope Francis ordered changes to the structure of ...

Benedict XVI’s latest encyclical is praised by Fr Reid Shelton Fernando, a priest from the diocese of Colombo and well-known in Sri Lanka for his writings and commentaries on economic and social iss ...

A woman wears an anti-racism shirt at Freedom Plaza Aug. 12 in Washington prior to the start of the white nationalists’ rally “Unite the Right 2” in nearby Lafayette Square. (Credit: Tyler ...

Pope Benedict XVI went further still with the publication of Caritas in Veritate in 2009. In this second encyclical commemorating Populorum Progressio, Benedict expressed his conviction that ...