Option for the Poor and for the Earth: From Leo XIII to Pope Francis

Donal Dorr focuses on Catholic social teaching and economic equality in this expanded and revised edition of a text long recognized as a classic. Throughout, Dorr appreciates the decided strengths of Catholic social teaching but is also ready to point out its inconsistencies and weaknesses. In addition to his classic treatments of church documents from the century and a half of Catholic social teaching that began with Rerum Novarum in 1870, Dorr adds his magisterial take on Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, and the new encyclical on ecology.