Solicitudo Rei Socialis
(Solicitudo Rei Socialis)
A consistent theme of Catholic social teaching is the option or love of preference for the poor. Today, this preference has to be expressed in worldwide dimensions, embracing the immense numbers of the hungry, the needy, the homeless, those without medical care, and those without hope.
Expanding on the notion of development in Populorum Progressio, John Paul II reviews the state of world development in the past two decades.
The moral nature of development leading humanity to the “fullness of being” is emphasized.