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  The Social Teachings of Pope Leo XIII Encyclicals and Excerpts Download EPUB here Download AZW3 (Kindle) here Download on Kobo   [EDIT: It was brought to my attention that there might be copyright issues with the reproduction of these translations.  I am clarifying with the Libraria Editrice Vaticana, and this book is temporarily delisted until I receive a response.] The recently-elected Pope Leo XIV chose his regnal name due to the social teachings of his predecessor, Pope Leo XIII (r. 1878-1903).  To make said teachings more easily available, I have collected Pope Leo XIII's encyclicals on social issues, as well as excerpts from encyclicals that show Pope Leo applying his principles to concrete situations.   This collection includes the entire "Leonine Corpus" canonized by Étienne Gilson in his The Church Speaks to the Modern World: The Social Teachings of Leo XIII , as well as numerous encyclicals not included by Gilson.  Texts are taken from ...

The following is merely a collection of links to English versions of Church documents from throughout the Church's history sorted by subject alphabetically and arranged by date within each heading. Documents that are exceptionally well-known or important are in bold. Since my main goal is to consolidate links to the most authentic and authoritative documents of the Church, I stick to documents of the Magisterium, that is, the Pope and the Congregations of the Roman Curia. I have added two appendices, however: one for Pontifical Councils and Commissions, including the International Theological Commission, (if a document was written by both a council and a congregation, it is placed in the main section) and one for the documents of the American Church (primarily the USCCB, formerly the NCCB). This is a work in progress, and I will hopefully be updating it frequently. If any of these links are dead or missing, or if you know of a document I did not include on this list that I sh...