See these online texts and ebooks (I) by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI and (II) about him and his thought, previously indexed on the Project.
I. Texts and ebooks by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI:Continue reading →
Integral Human Development and Chastity: The Link between Life and Social Ethics, by Fr. David D. Nerbun (2014). Available in pdf format at Academia.edu.
Instruction “Libertatis Conscientia” sur la Liberté Chrétienne et la Libération, de la Congrégation pour la Doctrine de la Foi, 22 mars 1986. Disponible dans le Saint-Siege.
O Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel; qui aperis, et nemo claudit; claudis, et nemo aperit: veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris, et umbra mortis. (Texte de website Aleteia)
(And if the grammar is wrong, please correct me. Merci!)
“Fundamental Politics: What We Must Learn From the Social Thought of Benedict XVI”, by Dr. Thomas R. Rourke, Communio, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Fall 2008): pp. 432-450. Available in pdf format through this page of Communio.
Towards Reducing Unemployment: The Proceedings of the Fifth Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 3-6 March 1999 (Acta 5), edited by M. Archer (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 1999). 345 pages. Available in pdf format on this page of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
“Satire in Contemporary Catholic Authors”, by Sister Patrick Harmon. Omaha, 1939. MA Thesis, Department of English, Creighton University. Available in pdf format at the Creighton Digital Repository.
In remembrance of Hilaire Belloc (+16 July 1953) and G.K. Chesterton (+14 June 1936), Defenders of the Faith and Champions of Reason. See also these texts by or about Hilaire Belloc: Continue reading →
The Seventh and Tenth Commandments: Economic and Political Morality, by Dr. Peter Kreeft (New Haven, CT: Catholic Information Service—Knights of Columbus Supreme Council, 2001-2021). With Imprimatur. Part of The Luke E. Hart Series: Basic Elements of the Catholic Faith (General Editor, Father John A. Farren, O.P.
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.
On the Feast of Saint Isidore the Worker, the anniversary of the Encyclical “Rerum Novarum” of Pope Leo XIII, and the secular observance of the International Day of Families. For other online texts and legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).
Carta encíclica “Caritas in veritate” sobre el desarrollo humano integral en la caridad y en la verdad, del Papa Benedicto XVI, 29 de junio 2009. Disponible en Catholic.net y la Santa Sede.
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Carta encíclica “Deus caritas est” sobre el amor cristiano, del Papa Benedicto XVI, 25 de diciembre de 2005. Disponible en Catholic.net y la Santa Sede.
Compendio de la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia, del Pontificio Consejo « Justicia y Paz » (2004). Disponible en Opus Dei y la Santa Sede.
Instrucción sobre libertad cristiana y liberación “Libertatis conscientia”, de la Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe, 22 de marzo de 1986. Disponible en Catholic.net y la Santa Sede.
“La caridad en la verdad, de la que Jesucristo se ha hecho testigo con su vida terrenal y, sobre todo, con su muerte y resurrección, es la principal fuerza impulsora del auténtico desarrollo de cada persona y de toda la humanidad… La caridad es la vía maestra de la doctrina social de la Iglesia. Todas las responsabilidades y compromisos trazados por esta doctrina provienen de la caridad que, según la enseñanza de Jesús, es la síntesis de toda la Ley.”
[And if the grammar is wrong, please correct me. Gracias!]
O Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel… veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris, et umbra mortis.
Reconstruction Virtues: An Advent Course of Sermons, Proposing Christian Remedies for Present Chaotic Social Conditions Drawn from the Store Room of the Mother of Civilization—the Catholic Church, by the Rev. Fr. Thomas F. Burke, CSP [1871-1947] (New York: The Paulist Press, 1920). With Imprimatur. May be read online, and available in pdf, mobi, epub, and other formats, at Internet Archive.
“Go and tell John what your own ears and eyes have witnessed; how the blind see, and the lame walk, how the lepers are made clean, and the deaf hear, how the dead are raised to life, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. Blessed is the man who does not lose confidence in me.” (St. Matthew xi, 4-6)
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