A SUMMARY OF “SOLLICITUDO REI SOCIALIS’ ENCYCLICAL LETTER OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF JOHN PAUL II TO THE BISHOPS, PRIESTS, RELIGIOUS FAMILIES, SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE CHURCH AND ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL FOR THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF
POPULORUM PROGRESSIO”
INTRODUCTION
The social concern of the Church, directed towards an authentic development of man and society which would respect and promote all the dimensions of the human person, has always expressed itself in the most varied ways. In recent years, one of the special means of intervention has been the Magisterium of the Roman Pontiffs which, beginning with the Encyclical Rerum Novarum of Leo XIII as a point of reference...
John Paul II is a renowned pope and an author in every fields of the Church’s life. Over the past twenty years of his pontificate, John Paul II has deepened our understanding of the Gospel message in many ways. Yet it is perhaps in his discussion of morality and justice that the former Archbishop of Krakow has made his most original contribution to theological discourse. The 1987 Encyclical letter (Sollicitudo Rei Socialis) of his collection. The Pope did a classical and spirit filling exposure of the social aspect of the Church.
The Encyclical letter is written to the bishops, priests, religious families, sons and daughters of the church and all people of good will for the twentieth anniversary of populorum progressio with reference to Moral Criticism as Moral Teaching.
Thus, this paper will be summarizing the encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis. It will look or highlight the idea of solidarity and preferential option for the poor in the encyclical.
Interestingly, the encyclical is divided into forty-nine numbers and seven sections. The first section, on the introduction with four numbers; the second...