10 Minutes a Day

Ten minutes a day reading the Catholic Church’s social encyclicals.

This episode continues Dilexi Te, the first apostolic exhortation of Pope Leo XIV, reflecting on love for the poor and the social dimension of the Gospel.

This podcast exists for people who want to work their way through catholic social teaching, but struggle to find the time. Each episode offers about ten minutes of a simple, uninterrupted audio reading from the documents themselves.

Core Documents of Catholic Social Teaching

Rerum Novarum — Pope Leo XIII (1891)
Quadragesimo Anno — Pope Pius XI (1931)
Mater et Magistra — Pope John XXIII (1961)
Pacem in Terris — Pope John XXIII (1963)
Gaudium et Spes — Second Vatican Council (1965)
Populorum Progressio — Pope Paul VI (1967)
Octogesima Adveniens — Pope Paul VI (1971)
Justice in the World — Synod of Bishops (1971)
Evangelii Nuntiandi — Pope Paul VI (1975)
Redemptor Hominis — Pope John Paul II (1979)
Laborem Exercens — Pope John Paul II (1981)
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis — Pope John Paul II (1987)
Centesimus Annus — Pope John Paul II (1991)
Evangelium Vitae — Pope John Paul II (1995)
Deus Caritas Est — Pope Benedict XVI (2005)
Caritas in Veritate — Pope Benedict XVI (2009)
Evangelii Gaudium — Pope Francis (2013)
Laudato Si’ — Pope Francis (2015)
Fratelli Tutti — Pope Francis (2020)
Querida Amazonia — Pope Francis (2020)
Laudate Deum — Pope Francis (2023)

If you’d like to follow along with the text, all documents are available online through the Vatican website.

Ten minutes a day reading the Catholic Church’s social encyclicals.

This episode begins Dilexi Te, the first apostolic exhortation of Pope Leo XIV, reflecting on love for the poor and the social dimension of the Gospel.

This podcast exists for people who want to work their way through catholic social teaching, but struggle to find the time. Each episode offers about ten minutes of a simple, uninterrupted audio reading from the documents themselves.

Core Documents of Catholic Social Teaching

Rerum Novarum — Pope Leo XIII (1891)
Quadragesimo Anno — Pope Pius XI (1931)
Mater et Magistra — Pope John XXIII (1961)
Pacem in Terris — Pope John XXIII (1963)
Gaudium et Spes — Second Vatican Council (1965)
Populorum Progressio — Pope Paul VI (1967)
Octogesima Adveniens — Pope Paul VI (1971)
Justice in the World — Synod of Bishops (1971)
Evangelii Nuntiandi — Pope Paul VI (1975)
Redemptor Hominis — Pope John Paul II (1979)
Laborem Exercens — Pope John Paul II (1981)
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis — Pope John Paul II (1987)
Centesimus Annus — Pope John Paul II (1991)
Evangelium Vitae — Pope John Paul II (1995)
Deus Caritas Est — Pope Benedict XVI (2005)
Caritas in Veritate — Pope Benedict XVI (2009)
Evangelii Gaudium — Pope Francis (2013)
Laudato Si’ — Pope Francis (2015)
Fratelli Tutti — Pope Francis (2020)
Querida Amazonia — Pope Francis (2020)
Laudate Deum — Pope Francis (2023)

If you’d like to follow along with the text, all documents are available online through the Vatican website.

PODCAST LAUNCHES THIS EASTER 2026! Exactly 6 Months from when Pope Leo published Dilexi Te!

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Many people want to read the Catholic Church’s social encyclicals but struggle to find the time.

Ten Minutes a Day offers a simple approach: about ten minutes of uninterrupted reading from the documents themselves.

We begin with Dilexi Te, the first apostolic exhortation of Pope Leo XIV. In choosing the name Leo, he signaled a desire to continue the legacy of Pope Leo XIII, whose landmark encyclical Rerum Novarum began the modern tradition of Catholic social teaching.

After Dilexi Te, the podcast returns to Rerum Novarum and moves forward through the tradition—reading documents such as Quadragesimo Anno, Centesimus Annus, Laudato Si’, and Fratelli Tutti ten minutes at a time.

No commentary.
No debate.
Just the texts.

Ten minutes a day.