Includes bibliographies.

Part One Historical Development -- The Catholic Social Movement: Historical Aspects --The Rights and Duties of Labor and Capital -- Toward a New Society --The Drafting of Quadragesimo Anno -- Forty Years Later: Reflections and Reminiscences -- Pope John XXIII– An New Direction? -- Human Rights in Roman Catholicism -- Looking Back on Populorum Progressio --Action for Justice as Constitutive of the Preaching of the Gospel: What Did the 1971 Synod Mean? -- Part Two: Overviews and Contemporary Discussions --Development of Church Social Teaching --The Changing Anthropological Teaching Bases of Catholic Social Ethics -- Laborem Exercens and Social Morality -- John Paul II's Encyclical on Labor --Laborem Exercens: Toward a New Solidarity -- John Paul II: Continuing and Change in the Social Teaching of the Church -- The Popes and Politics: Shifting Patterns in Catholic Social Doctrine --Part Three Evaluations and Perspectives -- Methodological Differences: The Holy See and the World Council of Churches -- The Problem of Poverty and the Poor in Catholic Social Teaching: A Marxist Perspective -- From Catholic "Social Doctrine"to the "Kingdom of Christ on Earth" -- The Bias Against Democratic Capitalism -- Economic Systems, Middle Way Theories, and Third World Realities -- Global Human Rights: An Interpretation of the Contemporary Catholic Understanding -- From Renum Novarum to Laborem Exercens: A United States Labor Perspective -- FEminist Themes and Laborem Exercens -- Major Differences: Liberation Theology and Current Church Teaching