Papal Encyclicals (Religious Legal Instruments)

Teaching letters of the pope addressed to the whole Church, such as Rerum Novarum, Mit Brennender Sorge, Humanae Vitae and Laudato Si'. An entry belongs here when its article presents an encyclical. The group page lists texts of the same legal kind together so that a reader can compare how religious authority and state power are put into writing. Entries are placed by what their own article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group that its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.