Rerum Novarum (Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor), Pope Leo XIII, Item 16
Pope Leo XIII
Rerum Novarum (Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor)
This encyclical was a reaction by the Holy See to the exorbitant wealth of Andrew Carnegie with his “Gospel of Wealth”, the increasingly Godless nature of the Rothschild family, the economic power of JP Morgan and the immense wealth of John Rockefeller. These individuals and their ideological dynasties hoarded the wealth of the worker and the philosophies of communism and socialism, with all their erroneous and simplistic origins, rose up to be an equal and opposite evil to this exorbitant wealth. Jesus gave many instructions on the necessity for us to work with our hands and give to the poor after we have adequately taken care of our family lives and this encyclical reiterates the solution to Capital and Labor which has always been valid but was discarded during the industrial revolution and this dualism has provided a more slave like world now than in more socially considerate communities and societies in history.
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Date Authored 1891
Pages 68