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Premarital Education in the Catholic Church: Exploring Retrospective Perceptions of Effectiveness of a Theologically Oriented Program on Relational and Spiritual Outcomes
Just Reward: The Nature of Work and Its Remuneration in the Economics and Ethics of Henry George
Laudato Siâ : care for creation at the center of a new social issue
Abstract: This essay reviews the documents of the pontifical magisterium of the Church from the encyclical Mater et magistra (1961) to the exhortation Evangelii gaudium (2013), in order to show the Churchâs historical commitment to the defense of the environment. It then argues that Laudato siâ elevates the theological status of the environmental crisis to that of a new social issue, much as Leo XIII did for the industrial crisis with his encyclical letter Rerum novarum (1891)