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16. For a history of modern papal social teaching, see John A. Coleman, ed.,
One Hundred Years of Catholic Social Thought: Celebration and Challenge
(Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1991); and David J. O'Brien and Thomas A.
Shannon, eds.,
Catholic Social Thought: The Documentary Heritage
(Maryknoll,
NY: Orbis Books, 1998).
17. O'Brien and Shannon,
Catholic Social Thought
, 129.
18. See Quadragesimo Anno, cited in O'Brien and Shannon,
Catholic Social
Thought
, 53.
19. See John XXIII,
Mater et Magistra
:
Christianity and Social Progress
(NJ:
Panlist Press, 1968), nos. 53-54.
20. In fact, John Paul II's 1991 encyclical,
Centesimus Annus (On the Hundredth
Anniversary of Rerum Novarum
), written after the fall of socialist governments
in Eastern Europe, seems to back off from the sharper critique of
Sollicitudo Rei
Socialis
1988 (see
Centesimus Annus
, nos. 35, 42).
21. John Paul II,
On Social Concern
(1987), in O'Brien and Shannon,
Catholic
Social Thought
, nos. 28, 33.
22. John Paul II,
The Gospel of Life
(1995), in O'Brien and Shannon,
Catholic
Social Thought
, nos. 18, 40-41.
23. John Paul II,
On Human Work
(1981), in O'Brien and Shannon,
Catholic
Social Thought
, no. 8. See also John Paul II,
Evangelium Vitae
, in O'Brien and
Shannon,
Catholic Social Thought
, no. 6.
24. See John XXIII,
Pacem in Terris
, in O'Brien and Shannon,
Catholic Social
Thought
, nos. 5-9.
25. John Paul II,
Evangelium Vitae
, no. 70.
26. On infertility therapies, see the 1987 Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith's
Donum Vitae
(
Instruction on Respect for Human Life
) February 27,
1987. See also John Paul II,
Evangelium Vitae
, nos. 37, 53, 60, 63.
27. Elio Sgreccia, cited in John Thavis, “Church Leaders Criticize Decisions on
Human Embryo Research,”
Catholic News Service
, August 28, 2000.
28. John Paul II, “Address to the 18
th
International Congress of the
Transplantation Society,” August 29, 2000, <http:///www.vatican.va/holy-
fathor/john.paul_ii,speeches/2000/jul_sept/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_2000829_
trawsplnats_en.html> (January 26, 2004).
29. John Paul II, “The Ethics of Genetic Manipulation,”
Origins
13, no. 23
(November 17, 1983): 388.
30. CIDSE Task Group on the European Union, Trade, and Food Security,
Biopatenting and the Threat to Food Security
, February 2000,
www.cidse.be/pubs.
31. Ibid.
32. Reinhold Niebuhr,
Man's Nature and His Communities
(New York: Charles
Scribner and Sons, 1965), 39.
33. Reinhold Niebuhr,
Moral Man and Immoral Society
(New York: Charles
Scribner and Sons, 1932), 27.
