Social Concern - A simplified version of the encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis of Pope John Paul II - Softcover

Mildred Nevile; John Harriott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852870230 ISBN 13: 9781852870232

Publisher: Catholic Institute for International Relations, 1990

Synopsis

What is genuine development for the world and individuals? This question is at the heart of Social Concern, written by John Paul II to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Paul VI’s encyclical On the Development of Peoples.
The Pope’s reflection faces the failure of earlier hopes for world development. The rich nations have grown richer and the poor poorer. Debt, homelessness and unemployment keep most of the world’s people in sub-human conditions. At the same time the abundance enjoyed by a minority also prevents them from being truly human. The Pope reflects on the arms race, the environment, ‘structures of sin’ and the nature of liberation, and calls for a response of human solidarity and a preferential love for the poor.

Pope John Paul’s appeal comes across strongly in this simplified version by Mildred Nevile and John Harriott.

Edition details

• Publisher: Catholic Institute for International Relations
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852870230
• ISBN 13: 9781852870232
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64