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Encyclical & Ethic. The Christian Democratic movement now has political parties in 16 of Latin America's 20 countries-all except Honduras, Paraguay, Haiti and Cuba. Like their powerful European counterparts in Italy and Germany, the Latin American parties base their philosophy on the 73-year-old Rerum Novarum encyclical of Pope Leo XIII-the so-called "Magna Carta of Labor," which advocates labor unions and worker profit-sharing...
...letter from the Pope to the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church, setting forth his views on anything he chooses for serious consideration, but not necessarily an infallible document. This papal device has been much in use since 1891, when Leo XIII issued his influential Rerum Novarum, on the church's attitude toward labor...
...deputy chairman described the parallel development of the political thought of the Roman Catholic Church through the years, citing the Papal encyclical Rerum Novarum in 1891 and Quadragesimo Anno...
...million Roman Catholics but all men. Two of his encyclicals may rank as classics, and they caught the imagination of many outside John's church. In Mater et Magistra (1961), he brought up to date the tradition of Catholic social teaching first formulated by Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum, defending both man's right to private property and the legitimacy of "socialization" for the common good. Pacem in Terris, the first encyclical addressed not just to the bishops and the faithful but to "all men of good will," was a lucid blueprint for a world of peace based...
Last week, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, Pope John XXIII issued his own social encyclical, a message firmly oriented toward the new problems of the mid-20th century. Titled Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) and addressed broadly to "all Christians," it is 25,000 words long-probably the longest encyclical in history-and ranges farther and wider than either of its two predecessors. It is also more polished; John and his advisers have been tinkering with it for many months, and its publication was reportedly delayed several times for last-minute changes...