For this paper, you must reflect on how each of the three themes is treated in the following five encyclicals: Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, Paul VI’s Populorum
Progressio, John Paul II’s Centesimus Annus, Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate, and Francis’ Fratelli Tutti. (All five encyclicals are available for free at
www.vatican.va in English.). Here are the three themes to write about, Ordering of Society Toward the Common Good, Dignity of the Human Person, and
Freedom as Rights and Responsibilities.
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