Annotated Papal Encylical Series

For years now, Catholics have been given confusing and often, even wrong/heretical teachings from their superiors! Adults and young people are losing the Faith in droves thanks to gross ignorance of the beautiful teachings of the Church. What are we to do in the face of this?

It is our duty to protect and inform ourselves by STUDYING THE FAITH as taught by the certainly-trustworthy popes, bishops, Fathers, and Doctors of the Church. If you would like to understand the principles which are the very antidote to the crisis we are living through, then we urge you and your older children to study these annotated encylicals. We especially had high-school students in mind when annotating these works. We make it easy to understand what the popes are saying, paragraph by paragraph.

Experience has, in fact, taught us that both adults and high-schoolers are excited after learning the concepts taught in these landmark works.  Would you like to know what the Church REALLY teaches about the nature of government? About ecumenism? About religious liberty? About liberty in general? About the proper ordering of Church and State? These and so many others topics are clearly laid out in these friendly documents. In fact, nobody "says it better" or explains these particular topics better than the popes themselves. Thus, no commentary should be substituted for the original writings.

"But aren't the encyclicals too hard for high school students?"

Not all papal encyclicals are of equal difficulty. Some are quite approachable, like those we include in this set. Others, such as Pope Saint Pius X's Pascendi on the topic of Modernism, are indeed quite difficult. But be at ease because the versions of these encyclicals that the student will read are Christ the King Book's own carefully annotated texts. As you can see in the samples below, we take the original Vatican texts and provide helpful notes, definitions, and explanations.

If you are still unsure, we urge you to try at least the introductory document and Immortale Dei, which explains the proper way to think of government, and how Church and State should be ordered.

As with all of our books, there are also exercise manual and answer key available for each of these works, to ensure the concepts are understood.