Status Updates From Quadragesimo Anno: On Recon...

Updates Rerum Novarum to account for changes caused in part by that Encyclical over 40 years, in particular the growth of labor unions and change from broadly defined Socialism into hard Communism and software Christian Socialism - fascinating reading!

Thoughts expressed: law as a teacher, freedom vs the common good, preferential option for the poor, workers’ rights, the necessity of religion in perfecting unions

“[Leo XIII] sought no help from either Liberalism or Socialism, for the one had proved that is was utterly unable to solve the social problem aright, and the other, proposing a remedy far worse than the evil itself, would have plunged human society into great dangers.”