Catholic Social Thought

Encyclicals and Documents from Pope Leo XIII to Pope Francis

Edited by David J O'Brien and Thomas A Shannon

This classic compendium of church teaching offers the most complete access to more than 100 years of official statements of the Catholic Church on social issues. Starting with Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum and going right through to Pope Francis' Laudato Si (2015), this is the single most comprehensive collection available of the primary documents of Catholic Social thought. 

Orbis books 2016

687 pages