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Rerum Novarum. Encyclical Letter on the Condition of the Working Classes. His Holiness Pope Leo XIII. May 15, 1891. To Our Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops and other Ordinaries of Places Having Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See. Venerable Brethren: Health and Apostolic Benediction.
Mar 19, 2015 · Description. In an open letter to all Catholics, Pope Leo XIII addressed the conditions of the working classes, the relationships between labor and capital, as well as government and its citizens. The letter supported the rights of labor to form unions, rejected socialism as well as unrestricted capitalism, while affirming the right to private ...
LEO PP. XIII. Venerabiles Fratres. Salutem et Apostolicam Benedictionem. Rerum novarum semel excitata cupidine, quae diu quidem commovet civitates, illud erat consecuturum ut commutationum studia a rationibus politicis in oeconomicarum cognatum genus aliquando defluerent.
New Catholic Encyclopedia. RERUM NOVARUM Encyclical letter of leo xiii issued May 15, 1891; the first of the great social encyclicals. Its appearance marked the bestowal of significant papal approval on the then emergent Catholic social movement. Its formulation of Catholic social principles owed much to the work of the Fribourg Union ...
May 5, 2024 · Overview. Rerum Novarum. Quick Reference. (1891). An encyclical of Leo XIII, intended to apply traditional Catholic teaching to the conditions created by the Industrial Revolution.
This chapter is an analytical summary of Rerum novarum. Its goal is to illuminate the purpose of the encyclical and the main lines of Pope Leo’s reasoning, his key premises and central ethical conclusions, and in this way, to articulate as clearly as possible the teaching that comprises Rerum novarum.
Rerum Novarum, the opening words and the title of the Encyclical issued by Leo XIII, May 15, 1891, on the “ Condition of Labor”. Although the Encyclical follows the lines of the traditional teaching concerning the rights and duties of property and the relations of employed and employee, it applies the old doctrines specifically to modern ...
