Now in Commonweal: Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio at 50

Next month will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, Populorum Progressio, which is subtitled “On the Development of Peoples.” George Weigel glibly — and falsely — dismissed it. (Probably something there he doesn’t want you to see?) On the other hand, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI both praised it in remarkably strong terms.

My article on the encyclical and why it’s more relevant today than ever to American Catholics is here. The full text of that important encyclical is here.