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Leo XIII Beyond Rerum Novarum

Anuncio vobis Gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam! Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum Robertum Franciscum Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem Prevost qui sibi nomen imposuit LEONEM XIV. I will always remember where I was when I heard this pronouncement. Having written a dissertation on Leo XIII during my doctoral program, I exploded with

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The Accomplishment of Leo XIII: Rerum Novarum

The immediate purpose of Rerum novarum was public policy, specifically the question of just wages for laborers and their right to form associations. In no letter do we find Leo writing so ambidextrously with respect to policy and theory. We leave the policy issues to one side in order to

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Rerum Novarum and the Deep History of Catholic Social Teaching

Many of the older members walking in the procession were reminded of the great demonstrations of two, three decades earlier. In their Sunday best, with the flags and standards of their union confederations, led out by a wind orchestra, the workers walked along the dirt road, between the glittering stream

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Leo XIII Beyond Rerum Novarum

The Accomplishment of Leo XIII: Rerum Novarum

Rerum Novarum and the Deep History of Catholic Social Teaching