rights and natural law". Pope John XXIII's 1963 encyclical Pacem in terris ("Peace on Earth") radically affected Catholic social teaching not only on war and peace, but on church-state relations, women's rights, religious freedom, international relations and other major issues. Fr. J. Bryan Hehir called Pacem in terris "a pivotal text in [papal] encyclical history" that played a major role in the development of the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom and its Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, and on Pope John Paul II's encyclical Centesimus annus ("The Hundredth Year"), which marked the centennial of Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical on labor, Rerum Novarum. It also influenced the 1965 Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis humanae). In commemoration of this encyclical, the annual Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom award was instituted in 1964, first by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport and later by the Quad Cities Pacem in Terris Coalition. During an event held on 6 May 2019, in Bulgaria, where John XXIII had gained a reputation for protecting Jews when serving as the country's Vatican representative, Pope Francis invoked the encyclical as a "code of conduct" for peace between Catholics and other religions. See also List of encyclicals of Pope John XXIII Pacem in Terris Award Tranquillitas ordinis Universal Declaration of Human Rights References Further reading Hollenbach, David. "Pacem in Terris and human rights." Journal of Catholic Social Thought 10.1 (2013): 5-15. https://doi.org/10.5840/jcathsoc20131012 External links English text Original Latin text "What we are for", TIME, 1963. Pacem in Terris "An Appeal to the Heart of Humanity", Montreal Gazette, April 13, 1963 1963 in Christianity 1963 documents Documents of the Catholic Social Teaching tradition Papal encyclicals Works by Pope John XXIII April 1963 events Religion and peace