Titled Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) and addressed broadly to “all Christians,” it is 25,000 words long—probably the longest encyclical in history—and ranges farther and wider ...

To make his point, he analyzes Pope John’s recent encyclical, Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher), which broadened Catholicism’s alignment on the side of the welfare state and endorsed a ...

Sixty years ago, St. John XXIII, known as the “Good Pope John,” issued “Mater et Magistra” (“Mother and Teacher: On Christianity and Social Progress”), which addressed many of the ...