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...Pope Pius XI said explicitly in his encyclical, Quadragesima Anno: "Just as the unity of human society cannot be founded on an opposition of classes, so also the right ordering of economic life cannot be left to a free competition of forces. For from this source, as from a poisoned spring, have originated and spread all the errors of individualistic economic teaching. . . . Free competition . . . clearly cannot direct economic life...
Salazar began immediately to construct his Estado Novo. He announced that the New State would be based on two great calls for social reform-the Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII and the Quadragesima Anno of Pius XI (see RELIGION). But however lofty may have been his inspiration, Salazar's execution was on a quite different pattern, one already known and hated as Fascism: free thought was abolished, the individual became subordinated to the state, the human bill of rights was suppressed and the secret police became the main arm of government. Soon little boys, well-shod and sporting...
...take. But as the West began to put out its lights and erect its barricades, more &. more of the hierarchy and priesthood began to study Leo's words. Even the most politically conservative could no longer ignore them when in 1931 scholarly Pius XI, in his Quadragesimo Anno, called upon the priesthood to select good Catholics for labor leadership and to undertake "intense study of social matters...
Most tangible U.S. result of Quadragesimo Anno is the growing Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, founded in 1937 to promote good unionism among Catholic workers and good Catholicism among unionists. Individual priests, like Pittsburgh's rambunctious Father Charles Rice, have marched in picket lines and attacked the bosses as ardently as any card-holding Communist. But as to the general labor attitude of the working priesthood, there have been few reliable straws in the wind. Last week, trend spotters had one to chew...
...international organization for the bet ter ordering of the interdependent life of nations, the preservation of peace with justice, and the furtherance of the general good of all peoples. Unto this great task we commit our wills and our ways. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names. Anno Domini...