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...Church's great human hope is embodied in a series of papal encyclicals of which the two most fundamental are Rerum Novarum (May 15, 1891) and Quadragesima Anno (May 15, 1931). Not long after Eugenio Pacelli was born, Leo XIII looked beyond the Vatican and saw European civilization sick in body from social septicemia and sick at heart from the standing threat of war. In Rerum Novarum Leo put a fearless finger on the morbid core of Europe's social sickness. He attacked the misery of Europe's impoverished masses and those responsible for their condition...
Forty years later (the Church moves deliberately under the aspect of eternity) Pius XI affirmed his predecessor's policy in the encyclical Quadragesima Anno. He pointed to the growing danger of "atheistic Communism" and Socialism. He also criticized capitalism for its religious and human indifference to the conditions of the workers and for the way in which more & more power was concentrated in the hands of fewer & fewer capitalists. Liberalism† the Pope called "the father of Socialism" and declared that its "heir" is Bolshevism; for, like Communists, most Catholics regard liberals as people who would be Communists...
...change in location and season made little difference in the reception of ancient class parts. The Ivy Oration, by Joseph C. Scott, was greeted with applause and laughter from the "Classmatibus hic haec hoc anno domini c pluribus unum veritas ad infinitum hocus pocus salutem" at the beginning, to the imitation of a History I professor who declared at the end, that "the chaos to which we are now subjected is like the screechings and scratching of a great orchestra, which is in reality but tuning up to play a great triumphal march-the Overture in Africa-and the Finale...
...priest in Oregon helped draft the U.S.'s first minimum-wage law and became the defendant in Stettler v. O'Hara when the law was tested and upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1931 he was the only American bishop present when Pius XI delivered Quadragesimo Anno, and spoke for the U.S. as delegates from each Christian nation reported the effects of Rerum Novarum. "I often think," he says, "of the contrast between that pilgrimage of representatives of free labor and of today when free labor organizations practically have disappeared in Europe." Chief instrument in U.S. Catholicism...
...N.C.W.C.'s administrative board, which represents the whole American hierarchy, roundly stated: "The first claim of labor, which takes priority over any claim of the owners to profits, respects the rights to a living wage." Pius XI's admonition on the social apostolate to workers in Quadragesima Anno-"All candidates for the sacred priesthood must be adequately prepared to meet it by intense study of social matters"-is also being heeded. Practically every Catholic seminary now provides courses in economics and sociology...