Papal Social Principles: A Guide and Digest

The present volume attempts to fulfill a long-felt need for some sort of English-language digest of papal social thought. More precisely, this is better described as a summary rather than a digest, for it is less concerned with reproducing exactly the words of the popes than with presenting their basic ideas as accurately as possible. It is intended as a supplement and guide to, but in no sense as a substitute for, the original statements of the popes. This last qualification cannot be too ...