Word: novarum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moral law. Inasmuch as the Church is the accredited interpreter and teacher of the moral law, her authority and function in the field of industrial relations are quite as certain as in domestic relations, or in any other department of human life." Pope Leo XIII issued an encyclical (Berum Novarum, May 15, 1891) on the conditions of labor. In it he rejected and condemned socialism and said " no practical solution of this question can be found apart from the intervention of religion and the Church." Wages must be sufficient to support the wage earners in reasonable and frugal comfort. Labor...