Equal Exchange Blog ... "Roots of Catholic Social Teaching"

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Roots of Catholic Social Teaching

Formal Catholic Social Teaching is defined by a set of Papal documents, starting with Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical on the condition of the working class, Rerum Novarum. Ultimately, however, it originates in how God speaks to us in scripture. On a trip to Mexico, I saw how God transmits social teaching to a group of His people there ...

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Bishop Samuel Ruiz of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, who aided the founding of CIRSA