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RERUM NOVARUM. ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII. ON CAPITAL AND LABOR. To Our Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates,Archbishops, Bishops, and other ordinaries. of places having Peace andCommunion with the Apostolic See. Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor.
Pope Leo XIII saw socialism as fundamentally flawed, seeking to replace rights and Catholic moral teaching with the ideology of state power. He believed that this would lead to the destruction of the family unit, where moral, productive individuals were taught and raised most successfully.
Jul 20, 1998 · Rerum Novarum, encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 and considered by many conservative Roman Catholics to be extremely progressive. It enunciated the late 19th-century Roman Catholic position on social justice, especially in relation to the problems created by the Industrial Revolution, and
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.
Pope Leo XIII upholds persons and states; and states; and in the world individuals’ right to hold private property but also community. He emphasizes basic human rights and notes the role of the state in facilitating responsibilities, calls for an end to the arms race.
Mar 19, 2015 · Rerum Novarum – Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII on the Conditions of Labor. Pope Leo XIII. Files. Download Full Text (4.3 MB) 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.
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.
