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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...
Last week U.S. Catholics celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first great labor encyclical, Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum ("Concerning New Things"), and the tenth anniversary of its sequel, Pius XI's Quadragesima Anno ("Forty Years After"). In these two documents the Roman Catholic Church said its say about social reform, and with its age-old flexibility took steps to adapt itself to 20th-century social change as it had to feudalism in the Middle Ages and to capitalism after the Reformation...
...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...
Among the 30 encyclicals which Pius XI gave to the world, one of the greatest was Quadragesima Anno, in which he upheld the rights of labor and set forth an ideal Catholic program condemning equally the extremes of unrestrained Capitalism and Communism. Nowhere did the Church attempt to translate this encyclical into political action. And everywhere Pius XI maintained a traditional policy of dealing politically with the States of the world-negotiating concordats wherever possible -upon any terms which recognized the validity of the Church's mission on earth. That policy led the Church into some dilemmas, could very...
...Eminence was once Domestic Prelate to Pope Leo XIII whose Encyclical, Rerum Novarum ("Concerning New Things") was the basis for Pope Pius XI's new encyclical, Quadragesima Anno ("In the 40th Year" after Leo's). His authoritative word was as follows...