Peter Nguyen’s Reviews > Quadragesimo Anno: On Reconstructing the Social Order > Status Update

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.”