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The article focuses on the encyclical "Quadragesimo Anno (After Forty Years)", which deals with the Roman Catholic Church's view on labor and capital. The major considerations in the encyclical are that of capital, labor, and the state. It reiterates the idea the private property is an unalienable right, but not an unlimited rate, but rejects the idea of the right of capital to all profits and the right of the laborer to the whole product or profit. Some of the other statements in the encyclical call for an international council and a national council for industries to settle differences. The author further describes several other parts of the letter.

The article focuses on the controversy on Pope Paul VI's encyclical on birth control. It states that the Pope's stand on population-control programs has earned various negative reactions from other religions, nation leaders, and the people questioning the essence of the Catholic Church's absolute separation from the law of the state. It also mentions the opinion of Dr. John Noonan of the University of California at Berkeley that the encyclical may regarded as another mistake of the papacy.

Presents information on various social and political developments around the world. Insufficiency of funds raised from private sources by the Emergency Employment Committee in New York to extend and carry on the work they had started to prevent starvation from unemployment this winter; Explanation given by American commentators who oppose unemployment insurance; Comment on the Pope's encyclical "On Christian Marriage," addressed to the patriarchs, primates, arch-bishops, bishops and other local ordinaries; Effect of Pope's encyclical on non-Catholic Americans; Dispute between U.S. President Herbert Hoover and the Senate over the Power Commission; Report that the Senate has passed the Jones bill, which is in substance the old Sheppard-Towner Act for cooperation between the states and the federal government in reducing infant and maternal mortality.

After all the conjectures, some of them well founded, that have been made in regard to the lines of policy which the lately elected Pope Benedict XV will follow, his somewhat belated Encyclical, first published in the journal "Osservatore Romano" of November 17, though bearing the date of November 1, has given to the world sufficiently precise information. Perhaps the first trait of the Encyclical Ad Beatissimi to attract the attention of persons well versed in ecclesiastical affairs is that it is almost entirely taken up with the internal life and government of the Church. Pope is determined to suppress the divisions and factions in the Church, which have been a scandal to right-minded Catholics and a derision to the profane and unbelieving world.

The article provides information on the "Humanae Vitae" encyclical on birth control issued by Pope Paul VI. It is said that a Commission for the Study of the Problems Relating to Population, Family and Birth was appointed by the pope to deal with the matter. Considered as a key passage of the encyclical is the need for each and every marriage act to remain open to the transmission of life.

Focuses on various policies decided in a meeting of The Extraordinary Synod of Bishops, held as of 1969 in Rome, Italy. Impact of birth control encyclical on the Roman Catholic Church; Reaction of the bishops on the issue of censoring their communications to Rome; Opinion of the author on the critics who according to him should turn their thoughts to the decadence and immorality of the times; Promise of the Pope to the synod of a permanent existence and regular meetings.

Focuses on the opposition of Marxist Communism by the Roman Catholic Church. Steadiness of an increase in the opposition during the present generation; Criticism of Communism by Pope Pius XI in encyclicals; Attitude of the Roman Catholic Church towards Liberalism; Account of the status and policies adopted by the Catholic Church during the period of Nazism and Spanish Civil War; Mention of various French organizations in addition to the Catholic progressives in France.

The article offers information on the encyclical letter, Aeterna Dei Sapientia, from Pope John XXIII addressed to Christians amidst the forces of communism and secularism.

The article emphasizes the stance of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr concerning Pope John's encyclical Mater et Magistra. It notes that Mater et Magistra broadened alignment of Catholicism on the side of the welfare state and endorsed a measure of socialization. Niebuhr believes that the Roman Catholic Church was not foolish when it sees rebellion against the law of God in the disintegration of the medieval mixture of Scripture and philosophy, political power and spiritual prestige.

The article discusses the relationship between religious liberty and Catholicism in the U.S. Physician Angel F. Carillo de Albornoz of Paris quotes the perspectives of German Jesuit Theologian Max Pribilla that religious liberty is the protection of the erring men and not the protection of error. Meanwhile, opposite faction contends that the encyclicals, pronouncements and other papal actions are subject to revision.

The article looks at the activities of Pope Pius XI as of November 8, 1926. His Holiness pledged to Mexico an ostensorium which was given to him at the beatification of the French Revolutionary martyrs. The Pope officiated the marriage of his niece, Louise Ratti, and Marquis Eduardo Persichetti, Secretary to the Nicaraguan legation to the Vatican. The Feast of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, as King is the new institution formed by His Holiness through an encyclical letter.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles that were published in the previous issues of the journal. Criticism of the journal for publishing an editorial on the new encyclical in a previous issue; Opinion that Pope John Paul's conclusion on the immorality of artificial contraception is in no way dependent on the opinions of this or that school of philosophy; Disagreement with a statement concerning the Pope's encyclical.

Focuses on release of a papal encyclical by Pope Paul VI. Emphasis of the press on passages in which Pope seems to be calling attention to the limitations of capitalism, the need for the further redistribution of wealth between the rich nations and the poor nations and acknowledging the control of the birth rate is desirable; Concentration of the encyclical at the Latin American latifundia, the landed estates which are sometimes owned by an absentee millionaire and operated by peasant share-croppers; Two forms of aid to Latin America by the U.S. including direct financial grants of the kind the Pope presumably favors and investment by Americans and American companies in Latin America.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics that were discussed in previous issues. Criticism of author Guy Davenport's review of the book "Everything That Rises Must Converge," by Flannery O'Connor; Discussion on the issue of population explosion in the U.S.; Analysis of Pope Pius XI's encyclical letter "Casti Connubii," which stressed on the sanctity of marriage and reaffirmed the prohibition on abortion.

The article reports that the encyclical against contraception by Pope Paul VI was met by resistance at various levels of the Catholic Church. It says that 400 worshipers have walked out from St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C. when Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle read the letter in a Sunday mass, which urges the faithful to obey the encyclical. However, bishops say that Catholics who rejected the papal guidelines may continue to receive Communion but must keep their decision to themselves.

The article focuses on the suspension of Reverent T. Joseph O'Donoghue and the possible disciplinary actions for 51 priests by Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle for opposing the anti-contraception encyclical of Pope Paul. It says that the priests expressed their support on the freedon of couples to use contraception based from their conscience. It mentions that O'Donoghue was suspended since he went on to preach about contraception even after reading the letter from the Cardinal on the Pope's encyclical.

The article focuses on the impact of the anti-contraception encyclical of Pope John Paul II. It discusses the actions of the priests who were against the encyclical, in which 14 of the 18 priests in Buffalo, Texas were summoned by Bishop James A. McNulty and 11 of them were asked to give their views on the encyclical. It mentions that some of the priests who are against the encyclical were either suspended or censured. Details related to the suspension of the nine priests in England is mentioned.

The article reports on the 12,500-word encyclical called Sacerdotalis Caelibatus or Priestly Celibacy, wherein Pope Paul VI decreed that the present ban on marriage for Catholic priests should be continued. It notes that the Pope took up the objections to celibacy one by one including that it is contrary to human nature and that there is no Scriptural basis for it. It adds that the encyclical referred to the number of priests who have left the church to marry as lamentable.

The article focuses on the encyclical letter outlined by the deceased American Jesuit scholar John LaFarge and colleagues for Pope Pius XI in 1938 to condemn the maltreatment of Nazis against Jews. It states that the Pope, who passed away in 1939, did not publicize the draft for unknown reason. According to sociologist Gordon Zahn, the encyclical may perhaps prevent the extermination if it was propagated. Meanwhile, members of the United Methodist Church has significantly dropped by 10,335,000.

The article focuses on Miranda Prorsus, a 15,000-word encyclical from Pope Pius XII, which called for the establishment of national committees to evaluate the ethical qualities of radio, television, and movies. It says that the committees will screen news programs, plays, and other entertainment and compel decent programs by conveying the public's disapproval to anchors. It mentions that Catholic Bishop Stephen S. Woznicki believes that the religious condition in the U.S. was a diverse issue.

An excerpt from Pope Pius XII's encyclical on the heresy of Monophysitism, a doctrine which upholds that Christ has only one nature, is presented.

Focuses on the socio-political issues in the U.S. Reaction to the encyclical of Pope Paul VI; Views of prominent Jewish theologian, Will Herberg, on population explosion and ways of coping with it; Analysis of the chemical industry of the U.S.; Increase of pressure on Congress to pass special legislation to permit the television networks to single out the two leading presidential contenders for special treatment.

Focuses on the papal encyclical "Humanae Vitae," reiterating the ban on the employment of chemical or mechanical devices for contraception. Information that the condemnation of contraception emerged explicitly in the struggle of the Church against various forms of Manicheism in the West; Comparison between abortion and infanticide; Discussion of the Catholic case against contraception.

Criticizes Pope Paul VI's encyclical "Human Vitae." Accomplishment of various issues by the Pope with the encyclical including the morality of contraception, means of opposing the tide of modern immortality and reaffirm his authority over these matters; Foundation of the Pope's arguments on the philosophy of natural law; Need to challenge the authority of the Church.

Focuses on the Pope's encyclical for being soft towards Marxism. Argument of the encyclical that a system has been constructed which considers profit as the key motive for economic progress; Criticism of the so-called Manchester liberalism in the middle of the 19th century; Accusations of warmed-over Marxism by the "Wall Street Journal."

Focuses on address of Papal Encyclical Mater et Magistra to the world. Criticism of the Encyclical by the Catholics; Questions of the nature, extent, and limits of ecclesiastical authority, raised in the Encyclical; Reaction of the press towards the Encyclical; Information that the Encyclical has met with the kind of respectful, perfunctory approval reserved for the innocuous commonplaces of "religion"; Views of conservatives that the Encyclical ignored Communism, and recommended the Christian use of something which in translation was rendered "socialization"; Claim that Encyclical does constitute doctrinal teaching on faith and morals.

Focuses on the encyclical of Pope John XXIII called "Pacem in Terris." Outlook of the pope on peace; Views of former United Nations Secretary-General U. Thant on the religious significance of the pope.

Examines the doctrinal statements of Pope Paul VI in his encyclical letter titled Populorum Progressio. Views on the conflict between the rich and the poor; Criticisms against feudalistic landowners; Stance on birth-control.

Focuses on the messages contained in the encyclical "Pacem in Terris." View that the encyclical does not limit itself to the discussion of philosophical doctrine; Opinion of the encyclical on communism; Fact that the encyclical aims at bringing about world peace; Deliberation on why the pope wants peaceful existence with communism.