ABSTRACT
On 25 September 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was adopted by the UN General Assembly Resolution in New York. In view of how critical the problems addressed in the 2030 Agenda are and given that both developed and developing countries declared their willingness to solve them, the implementation of SDGs is a challenge for the entire international community. Therefore, it seems that all affected parties should be involved in the process. The Catholic Church is undoubtedly one of such parties. Starting from Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Populorum Progressio, she has been intensively involved in the debate on the concept of development. The care of the Catholic Church for the development of individuals and societies is expressed in Catholic social teaching. Catholic social teaching refers to God to define the areas and factors which influence the development of man and his sense of dignity.
