However conservative he may be in matters of traditional doctrine and discipline, Pope Paul VI has always had a warm predilection for social activism. As Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini of Milan, he initiated a range of programs for the workers and poor of that problem-plagued archdiocese. In his travels as Pope, he has repeatedly made a point of seeking out the sick and impoverished. His remarkable 1967 social encyclical, Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples), called on nations to engage in a worldwide program of aggressive social action. Now comes an apostolic...
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