In recent years, Catholic episcopal conferences have taken up many issues of social justice, interpreting for their own churches what was once addressed almost exclusively by the papacy. This ongoing development is the subject of an extensive cataloguing research project based in Fribourg. After comparing how specific themes are highlighted in different regions, the author concludes with an examination of the documents' concepts of solidarity and responsibility.
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Terence McGoldrick (1998) studied this question.