The Popes and Vatican II on the Catholic Social Teaching

Pope Leo XIII
• Rerum Novarum, On Capital and Labor

Pius XI
• Quadragesimo Anno, On Reconstruction of the Social Order

Blessed John XXIII
• Mater et Magistra, Christianity and Social Progress
• Pacem in Terris, Peace on Earth

Vatican II
• Gaudium et Spes, Pastoral Constitution On the Church In the Modern World

Pope Paul VI
• Populorum Progressio, On the Development of Peoples
• Octogesima Adveniens, On the Eightieth Anniversary

Pope John Paul II
• Laborem Exercens, On Human Work
• Solicitudo Rei Socialis, On Social Concern
• Centesimus Annus, On Rerum Novarum
• Evangelium Vitae, The Gospel of Life

Pope Benedict XVI
• Deus Caritas Est, God is Love
• Caritas in Veritate, Charity in Truth

Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
• Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church