Rerum Novarum was groundbreaking in addressing the struggles of the working class and societal challenges during the Industrial Revolution.
Preferential Option for the Poor Articles
Poverty Quotes from the Church
“[I]t is well known that there are many other forms of poverty, especially in modern society – not only economic but cultural and spiritual poverty as well.” (Pope St. John Paul II, 57)
Helping the Poor
“We need to broaden our perspective…We need to grow in a solidarity which ‘would allow all peoples to become the artisans of their destiny'” (Pope Francis, 190)
Structural poverty is particularly egregious for “those living in conditions opposed to human dignity: those who lack basic rights and needs such as food, water,…
Visit any impoverished town or inner city and it will be clear that material lack is not the key problem.…
By material and economic standards the ten poorest countries are in Africa. Conversely, the ten richest countries are mostly in Europe. But this isn't the…
Poverty is not just material. It is also moral and spiritual. Poverty is an affront to human dignity, and so the Church has always taught…
Capitalism has proven to be the greatest poverty relief program the world has ever known, but Pope Francis echoes that there this is no reason…
“[T]hose oppressed by poverty are the object of a preferential love on the part of the Church which, since her origin…has not ceased to work…
