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Online text: “Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church”, by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace

15 Saturday May 2021

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See this online text:

  • Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (2004).
    • The text may be read online through this page of Catholic Culture and at the Holy See, and available in pdf format on this page of Discerning Hearts.
    • An excerpt containing Chapter IV (The Human Person and Human Rights) and Sections I to VI of Chapter V (Principles of the Church’s Social Doctrine) is available in pdf format at Villanova University. An excerpt containing Chapter V (Principles of the Church’s Social Doctrine) is available in pdf format on this page. A pdf document containing “Excerpts of Points Emphasized by St. Josemaría [Escriva]” is available at My Illinois State.
    • The Presentation of the ‘Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church’, Montecassino Abbey, 30 April 2006, by Renato Raffaele Cardinal Martino, with essays by Professor Edmond Malinvaud and Professor and former Senator Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 2006) is available in pdf format at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
    • The Intervention by Renato Raffaele Cardinal Martino at the Press Conference for the Presentation of the “Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church”, 25 October 2004 may be read online at the Holy See.

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