Fwd: We need a CW publisher for the Social Encyclicals

[Catholic Worker]

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From: Sean Domencic <trad...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Subject: We need a CW publisher for the Social Encyclicals
To: Catholic Worker <catholicw...@gmail.com>

Dear CWs,

Is anyone with experience in publishing and/or running a small online storefront interested in helping produce a complete set of booklets containing all the Social Encyclicals of the Popes? Other CW material could also be made available.

I am trying to acquire Social Encyclicals for distribution at my parish and CW community, but finding it enormously difficult. Only the traditionalists print the old ones (like Rerum Novarum) and the big publishing houses like Pauline Press only publish the very recent ones (like Dilexi Te--but they've already stopped printing Laudato Si'!). The great encyclicals of the midcentury, like Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (on structures of sin) and Pacem in Terris (on world peace), are entirely out of print as individual booklets and can only be purchased second-hand!!! Somebody must help in correct this; in the age of self-publishing, it can't be that hard. Perhaps the proceeds, if any, could benefit the works of mercy in your community. 

Pax et Bonum,

Sean Domencic

Rechabite Catholic Worker

Lancaster, PA