Encyclical

In R.E we have been doing Key Ideas, The key ideas key ideas help us to know more about Jesus and bishop and priests. We are on Key idea 6 we are learning about Popes of our time, our task was to learn about the Encyclical and come up with some question you can ask about it you come up with 3 questions but the questions have to be 1. When or What 2. how or why 3. Could, Should, Would or is. and I found facts about the  Encyclical and some of the facts I found shocking, one of the facts that were shocking was that Pope francis only wrote 2 Encyclical. But it was really fun doing, I found out lots of cool information and facts. 

Here our my questions and answers:

The first person to write an Encyclical was 1740 and was written by Pope Benedict XIV. THe people that have written the most was Pius XII, he wrote 41 Encyclical. Pope Francis has written 2  Encyclical, They write it for the issues in the church. Now  there are over 300 Encyclical 
Questions:
1.When was the first Encyclical to be wrote?
2.why do they write then? 
3. Is there more than 100 Encyclical?
Answer: 
1.1740.
2.to talk about issues in the church. 
3.Yes there are 300.