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A Summary of Catholic Social Teaching[2] - Magis Center
A Summary of Catholic Social teaching Robert J. Spitzer, , , October 2017 all rights reserved In 1891, Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical letter Rerum Novarum to rectify the abuses of the working class created by unjust practices throughout the Industrial Revolution. It endeavored to set out the responsibilities of labor, capital producers, government, and citizens to achieve justice and free market creativity and production. This entailed the condemnation of Marxist socialism as well as unrestrained capitalism while protecting the rights of individuals and private property. It is the founding document of Catholic Social teaching . Since that time every Pope has expanded the body of Catholic Social teaching to apply not only to labor and the economy but also to family, political community, international community, war and peace, and the environment.
meet the demands of the common good in the best way possible. This is explained 4 See Second Vatican Council Gaudium et Spes (Pastoral Constitution of the Church) Sections 12, 25-27, & 41. See also Second Vatican Council Declaration: Dignitatis Humanae 1 5 Compendium Catholic Social Doctrine 164 See also Second Vatican Council Gaudium et Spes, 26
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