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Question | Answer |
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Rerum Novarum | 1891 marks the beginning of a new path of social matter,1st social encyclical,examines conditions of salarized workers, gov't involvment -supported rights of labor to form unions, rejected communism, & unrestricted Capitalism & affirmed right 2 private |
Quadragesimo anno | 1931- workers and families provided for -rejects liberalism, discusses the ethical implications of the social and economic order -calls for reconstruction of the social order based on solidarity and subsidarity |
Mater et Magistra | 1961- church is always open, church as a nurturing Mother and informative teacher -focuses on need for community with a common good(during Cuban Missile Crisis) |
Pacem in Terris | 1963-importance of relationships among nations, communities, and individuals -Reinforces everyones basic human rights, mutual trust and respect |
Gaudium et Spes | 1965-themes of social life related to human being, new sense of service in the changing world |
Dignitatis Humanae | 1965-proclaims the right to religious freedom |
Populorum Progressio | 1967- develops the social and economic parts of the world to serve everyone |
Octogesima Adveniens | 1971- reflects on problems of post industrial society -Calls Christians to live up to the duty of participation in Social and political reform |
Laborem Exercens | 1981- work the fundamental good of a person, reinforcing ethic of work |
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis | 1987- a clarification was made that the Church’s social doctrine “belongs to the field, not of ideology, but of theology—particularly moral theology” |
Centesimus Annus | 1991- 100 year cap -democracy is good, speaks against unjust distribution of goods |
Solidarity | - a determination to commit oneself to the common good, recognize the ties and bonds among people, have awareness |
Subsidiarity | - all societies of a superior order must help to lower-order societies, without restricting them |
Universal destination of goods | - all created things to be shared fairly by all mankind under the guidance of justice tempered by charity, the earth is God’s gift to us |
Common good | - in order to attain its fullest meaning, stems from the dignity, unity, and equality of all people, social and community dimension of the moral good, good of all people and the whole person (State and gov’t is responsible) |