Title of the Encyclical: Populorum Progressio
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Background:
Giovanni Battista Montini, better known as Pope Paul VI, wrote Populorum Progression, issued on March
26, 1967. It simply translates to "people development," consisting of three components: personal
empowerment of disadvantaged people, participatory leadership and collaborative planning, and
identifying the complex fundamental causes of poverty and injustice. Populorum Progressio mapped the
road for people-led development, making a preferred choice for the impoverished a top priority for the
Church. Populorum Progressio condemns societal disparities that deprive individuals of their dignity and
establishes the idea that every person has the right to integral human development and, as such, should
have equal access to resources such as social, economic, political, cultural, personal, and spiritual growth.