John Paul II: Sollicitudo Rei Socialis

A Bibliography by Gerald Darring



Aman, Kenneth. "The Pope and 'Social Concerns.'" Christianity and Crisis 48 (16 May 1988) 177.

Arroyo, Edward B., S.J. "Solidarity: A Moral Imperative for an Interdependent World." Blueprint for Social Justice (Loyola, New Orleans) September, 1988.

Baum, Gregory G. "The Anti-Cold War Encyclical." Ecumenist 26 (July-August 1988) 65-74.

Baum, Gregory. "Theological Methodology: The Magisterium." Ecumenist 27 (July-August 1989) 71-74.

Baum, Gregory, and Robert Ellsberg, eds. The Logic of Solidarity. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1989.

Bethell, T. "Mea Maxima Culpa?" National Review 40 (15 April 1988) 34-36.

Blanchard, Francis. "The ILO and the Encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis." L'Osservatore Romano [Eng.] No. 12 (21 March 1988) 7.

Blewett, Jane. "The Greening of Catholic Social Thought." Pro Mundi Vita Studies 13 (February 1990) 27-35.

Bowe, Paul, O.P. "Sollicitudo Rei Socialis: A Commentary on the Encyclical." Doctrine and Life 38 (May-June 1988) 227-33.

Buckley, R. "Does the Pope Love America?" American Spectator 21 (May 1988) 19-21.

Buckley, William F. "What Is the Pope Saying?" National Review 40 (18 March 1988) 17-18.

Byron, William J., S.J. "Solidarity: Path to Development and Peace." America 158 (30 April 1988) 445-46.

Byron, William J., S.J. "Pope John Paul II's Blueprint for Peace." Columbia 68 (September 1988) 11-12.

Caldecott, Stratford. "Cosmology, Eschatology, Ecology: Some Reflections on Sollicitudo Rei Socialis." Communio 15 (Fall 1988) 305-18.

Caldecott, Stratford. "On the Greenness of Catholicism and Its Further Greening." New Oxford Review 56 (December 1989) 9-12.

Callam, Daniel, C.S.B. "Lady Courteney's Garden." Canadian Catholic Review 6 (May 1988) 162-63.

Calvez, Jean-Yves, S.J. "Extremely Self-Righteous." 30 Days (April 1988) 42-43.

Calvez, Jean-Yves, S.J. "Sollicitudo Rei Socialis." Judith A. Dwyer, ed., The New Dictionary of Catholic Social Thought, Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1994, pp. 912-17.

Carr, John. "New Encyclical Reinforces Message of Economic Pastoral." Working for Economic Justice (USCC Office of Implementation) 2:2 (March-April 1988) 1, 7.

Cort, John C. "Cafeteria Catholicism and the Pope's Encyclical." New Oxford Review 55 (May 1988) 20-22.

Donohue, John W., S.J. "A Lever to Move the World." America 159 (8 October 1988) 211-12.

Egan, John. "Sollicitudo Rei Socialis: A Perspective from Aotearoa (New Zealand)." East Asian Pastoral Review 26 (No. 2, 1989) 183-90.

Falardeau, Ernest R., S.S.S. "Solidarity in Social Concerns." Emmanuel 96 (April 1990) 130+.

Faley, Roland J. "Pope as Prophet: The New Social Encyclical." America 158 (30 April 1988) 447-450, 462.

Finn, James. "Beyond East and West." Crisis (April 1988) 44-47.

Finnis, John. "Goods Are Meant for Everyone." L'Osservatore Romano [Eng.] 12 (21 March 1988) 11.

Fitzgerald, James P. "The Debt System vs. Development." Social Justice Review 82 (September-October 1991) 158-61.

Fonseca, Aloysius J., S.J. "Reflections on the Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis." Gregorianum 70 (No. 1, 1989) 5-24.

Galbraith, John Kenneth. "Encyclical a Strong Swipe at U.S. Economic Policies." National Catholic Reporter 24 (27 May 1988) 13.

Habiger, Matthew, O.S.B. "Situating Sollicitudo Rei Socialis in Catholic Social Teaching." Social Justice Review 79 (September-October 1988) 138-41.

Hanink, James G. "John Paul II's Middle Course." National Catholic Register 64 (2 October 1988) 1+.

Hansen, Susan. "Pope's New Social Encyclical Receives Mixed Reviews." National Catholic Reporter 24 (4 March 1988).

Hebblethwaite, Peter. "Latest Encyclical Seen as Update." National Catholic Reporter 24 (26 February 1988) 7.

Hebblethwaite, Peter. "Encyclical Affirms Liberation Theology Themes." National Catholic Reporter 24 (4 March 1988) 5-8.

Hehir, J. Bryan. "Taking on the Super-Rivals: Reactions to the Pope's Latest Encyclical." Commonweal 115 (25 March 1988) 169-70.

Hennelly, Alfred T., S.J. "A Spirituality for the World Church." America 158 (14 May 1988) 503-06.

Henriot, Peter, S.J. "Neither East Nor West Has Panacea." National Catholic Reporter 24 (27 May 1988) 8.

Henriot, Peter, S.J. "New Encyclical Challenges Development." Center Focus 84 (May 1988) 1, 2, 6.

Kammer, Fred, S.J. Doing Faithjustice. New York: Paulist Press, 1991, pp. 112-14.

Kelly, Jim. "A New Social Encyclical." Catholic Worker 55 (May 1988) 10.

Kiliroor, M. "Social Doctrine in Sollicitudo Rei Socialis." Month 21 (June 1988) 711-14.

Lakeland, Paul F., S.J. "Development and Catholic Social Teaching: Pope John Paul's New Encyclical." Month 21 (June 1988) 706-10.

Langan, John. "Personal Responsibility and the Common Good in John Paul II." Joseph Runzo, ed., Ethics, Religion, and the Good Society: New Directions in a Pluralistic World, Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1992, pp. 132-47. Reply by Nancey Murphy, "On the Priority of Personal to Structural Evil in Catholic Social Teaching: A Critique," pp. 148-52.

MacGillis, Miriam Therese. "Pope's Cosmic Concerns Have Traditional Focus." National Catholic Reporter 24 (27 May 1988) 12.

Mahony, Archbishop Roger M. "Perspectives for Viewing the Social Concerns Encyclical." Origins 18 (16 June 1988) 68-72.

McGurn, William. "Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (1987)." George Weigel and Robert Royal, eds., A Century of Catholic Social Thought, Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1991, pp. 163-76.

Millman, George. "The Pope, the Press and Tyranny of Systems." Homiletic and Pastoral Review 89 (December 1988) 55-59.

Morneau, Bishop Robert F. "The Church's Social Concerns: Ten Lessons." Emmanuel 95 (March 1989) 70-73+.

Moynihan, Robert. "John Paul's Latest Encyclical." National Catholic Register 64 (3 March 1988) 1+.

Myers, Kenneth A., ed. Aspiring to Freedom: Commentaries on John Paul II's Encyclical "The Social Concerns of the Church". Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988.

Mynatty, Hormis. "The Concept of Social Sin." Louvain Studies 16 (September 1991) 3-26.

Neuhaus, Richard John, ed. "Solicitudo Rei Socialis: A Symposium." This World 22 (Summer 1988) 31-98. Includes: Michael Novak, "The Development of Nations;" Peter L. Berger, "Emperical Testings;" George Weigel, "The Democracy Connection;" Richard John Neuhaus, "Sollicitudo Behind the Headlines."

Novak, Michael. "Beyond 'Populorum Progressio': John Paul II's 'Economic Initiative.'" Crisis (March 1988) 8-9.

O'Connell, Patrick F. "Worth Pondering..." Living Prayer 21 (September-October 1988) 20-21.

O'Connor, Dennis A. "An Economic Evaluation of John Paul II's Encyclical on Social Concerns." Social Justice Review 79 (September-October 1988) 131-37.

Preston, Ronald. "Twenty Years after Populorum Progressio." Theology 92 (November 1989) 519-25.

Rutayisire, Paul. "An Encyclical on Social Issues and Development." Pro Mundi Vita Studies 8 (March 1989) 4.

Safire, William. "Structures of Sin." New York Times (22 February 1988) A19.

Safire, William. "John Paul II, the Relativist, Pontificating Against Blocs." International Herald Tribune (23 February 1988).

Schall, James V. "John Paul II's Sollicitudo Rei Socialis." Religion, Wealth and Poverty. Vancouver, BC: The Fraser Institute, 1990, pp. 149-70.

Shaw, Russell B. "What John Paul II Said in His New Encyclical." Our Sunday Visitor 76 (3 April 1988) 4.

Simon, Julian L. "Too Few People? Too Many Trees: A Non-Catholic Economist Says the Pope May Have It Wrong." Crisis 9 (February 1991) 19-22.

Simon, Julian L. "Muscle and Mind Should See Us Through." Tablet 245 (20 April 1991) 468-69.

Steinfels, Peter. "An Unsparing View of Ills." New York Times 137 (20 February 1988) 1, 5.

Suro, Roberto. "Papal Encyclical Says Superpower Hurt Third World." New York Times 137 (20 February 1988) 1, 5.

Suro, Roberto. "The Writing of Sollicitudo Rei Socialis: A Behind-the-Scenes Account." Critic 6 (May 1988) 13-18.

White, Robert E. "Blaming the Villains, Not the Victim: John Paul II and the Superpowers." Commonweal 115 (21 October 1988) 555-59.

Williams, Oliver F., C.S.C., and John W. Houck, eds. The Making of an Economic Vision: John Paul II's On Social Concern. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991. See: Denis Goulet, "On Authentic Social Development: Concepts, Content, and Criteria," pp. 3-23. Richard T. DeGeorge, "Decoding the Pope's Social Encyclicals," pp. 24-43. J. Philip Wogaman, "The Economic Encyclicals of Pope John Paul II: Theological and Economic Perspectives," pp. 44-66. Robert Benne, "John Paul II's Challenge to Democratic Capitalism or Be Still and Know That I Am the Pope," pp. 121-38. Theodore R. Weber, "Thinking Theologically about International Development," pp. 189-216. Leslie Griffin, "Moral Criticism as Moral Teaching: Pope John Paul II's Sollicitudo Rei Socialis," pp. 240-260. John Howard Yoder, "The Conditions of Countercultural Credibility," pp. 261-74. John Langan, S.J., "Solidarity, Sin, Common Good, and Responsibility for Change in Contemporary Society," pp. 275-85. Lee A. Tavis, "Papal Encyclicals and the Multinational Manager," pp. 289-311. S. Prakash Sethi and Paul Steidlmeier, "Radicalization of the socioeconomic Environment of the Third World--Conflicting and Cooperative Roles for the Catholic Church and Multinational Corporations," pp. 332-60.

"A Charter for the Human Family." Tablet 242 (27 February 1988) 231.

"A Welcome for the Pope's Encyclical." Tablet 242 (27 February 1988) 251.

"Economic Olympiad." Wall Street Journal (23 February 1988) 30.

"Encyclical Calls for Unity of Whole Human Race." Health Progress 69 (April 1988) 52.

"Fatal Links between Debt and Disease." Tablet 245 (27 April 1991) 495-96.

"On Social Concern." National Catholic Reporter 25 (26 May 1989) 10-14. Special section, including: Arthur Jones, "Marist Says Document is Social Activists' Best Ally." Arthur Jones, "Missionary Points Out Social Concern's Plea to West." Joseph G. Donders, On Social Concern: NCR Supplement: A Paraphrase of the 1987 Encyclical of John Paul II.

"Papal Gull." New Republic 198 (14 March 1988) 5-7.

"Placing the Blame." Christian Century 105 (9 March 1988) 242.

"Science Fused with Theology in Papal Letter." National Catholic Reporter 24 (4 March 1988) 1, 12.

"Sollicitudo Rei Socialis." Commonweal 115 (11 March 1988) 131-32.

"Sollicitudo Rei Socialis: A Catholic Gift to the World." National Catholic Reporter 24 (27 May 1988) 3-13. Special section, including: Peter Hebblethwaite, "On Social Concern Lofts a Few New Concerns." Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, "Encyclical Meshes with U.S. Bishops' Pastorals." Peter Henriot, "Neither East Nor West Has Panacea." Penny Lernoux, "Technology Not the Answer as Brazil Shows." Cardinal P. Arns, "Exploitation of Weak Nations for Profit a Sin." Eugene Kennedy, "Pope, Thoroughly Moved, Aims to Disturb Us." Miriam Therese MacGillis, "Pope's Cosmic Concerns Have Traditional Focus." John Kenneth Galbraith, "Encyclical a Strong Swipe at U.S. Economic Policies."

"Strange Developments." Fortune 117 (28 March 1988) 156.

"Superpowers Target of Encyclical's Wrath." National Catholic Reporter 24 (26 February 1988) 6.

"The Social Encyclical: Sollicitudo Rei Socialis in Asia." East Asian Pastoral Review 26 (No. 1, 1989) 3-38. Symposium, incluging: J. Carroll: "An Overview of the Encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis." F. Claver, "An Anthropological Prespective on Sollicitudo Rei Socialis." P. Gauthier, "Response from Malaysia regarding the Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis." R. Timm, "Echoes of Sollicitudo Rei Socialis in Bangladesh." "The Sollicitudo Rei Socialis in Thailand." J. Chathanatt, "Interdependent Solidarity: A Fresh Look at Sollicitudo Rei Socialis."

"The Solidarity Encyclical." America 158 (12 March 1988) 251.

"United Nations Seminar Debates Social Encyclical." National Catholic Register 64 (25 September 1988) 9.

Wall Street Journal (22 February 1988) 1, 3.