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	Pope John Paul II - Centesimus Annus - On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum - 1 May 1991
		Rerum Novarum is opposed to state control of the means of production, which would reduce every citizen to being a "cog" in the state machine.
		In Rerum Novarum, Leo XIII strongly affirmed the natural character of the right to private property, using various arguments against the socialism of his time.[65] This right, which is fundamental for the autonomy and development of the person, has always been defended by the Church up to our own day.
		The encyclical Rerum Novarum can be read as a valid contribution to socio-economic analysis at the end of the nineteenth century, but its specific value derives from the fact that it is a document of the Magisterium and is fully a part of the Church's evangelizing mission, together with many other documents of this nature.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/pope0264he.htm (17534 words)

	Catholicism’s Developing Social Teaching, by Robert A. Sirico: C.S. Lewis Society of California
		Rerum Novarum is not without certain misconceptions relative to the practice of the free economy.
		Where Rerum Novarum exhibits a concern that society be organized in such a way that a vibrant network of what we today would call mediating institutions be active in protecting and promoting the welfare of the commonweal, Centesimus Annus explicitly calls for such “intermediate communities” to be left free to extend their positive social impact.
		Both Rerum Novarum and Centesimus Annus are worthy of celebration by those who believe that individual liberty offers the best hope for the common good; and they are worthy of study by religious collectivists who mistakenly believe that religion in general, and Christianity in particular, ought to opt for socialism.
	www.lewissociety.org /teaching.php (8253 words)

	Essay: Papal doubts about unbridled capitalism
		Rerum Novarum was his effort -- ultimately unsuccessful -- to reverse the trend.
		The two issues he faced explicitly are the Marxist rejection of private property (which he incorrectly presented as total; Marx sought only to abolish bourgeois property based "on the exploitation of the many by the few") and its theory of class struggle.
		The virtuous Christian employers, on whom Rerum Novarum had relied to improve the lot of the worker, had failed to materialize.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives2/1997a/013197/013197d.htm (1246 words)

	Catholicism's Developing Social Teaching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rerum Novarum was the first of the modern social encyclicals.
		Our discussion of Rerum Novarum and Centesimus Annus will be deepened by an understanding of what it means to speak authoritatively in a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical understanding and what the bounds of that teaching authority, or magisterium, are.
		Both Rerum Novarum and entesimus Annusare worthy of celebration by those who believe that individual liberty offers the best hope for the common good; and they are worthy of study by religious collectivists who mistakenly believe that religion in general, and Christianity in particular, ought to opt for socialism.
	www.libertyhaven.com /noneoftheabove/religionandchristians/catholicismsdeve.html (8373 words)

	Meningar.com om rerum. Rerum, RERUM, esse mm.
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		Rerum Novarum Leo XIII: Rerum Novarum A Bibliography by Gerald Darring Abell, Aaron I...
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	www.meningar.com /rerum.html (1136 words)

	Centesimus annus - Ioannes Paulus PP. II - Encyclical Letter (1991.05.01)
		The Pope's approach in publishing Rerum novarum gave the Church "citizenship status" as it were, amid the changing realities of public life, and this standing would be more fully confirmed later on.
		Rerum novarum opposed ideologies of hatred and showed how violence and resentment could be overcome by justice.
		In Third World contexts, certain objectives stated by Rerum novarum remain valid, and, in some cases, still constitute a goal yet to be reached, if man's work and his very being are not to be reduced to the level of a mere commodity.
	www.vatican.va /holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_01051991_centesimus-annus_en.html (18367 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
		Second, "Rerum Novarum" was deeply concerned with the alienation of the workers from the Church as a result of the widening gap between the social classes.
		The encyclical "Rerum Novarum" of Leo XIII indicated the Church's awareness and response to the signs of the times.
		The impact of Leo XIII's "Rerum Novarum" is assessed in Pius XI's encyclical "Quadragesimo Anno" on May 15, 1931.
	www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=43404 (2172 words)

	Papal Social Encyclicals
		Rerum Novarum broke down the barriers that separated the church from the worker.
		This encyclical repeated many of the themes of Rerum Novarum: the dignity of labor, the rights of workers to organize, etc. Quadragesimo anno also emphasized the immorality of keeping economic control in the hands of a few.
		Centesimus Annus brought Rerum Novarum up to date and tied it to "the preferential option for the poor." done in the context of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Centesimus Annus still criticized both capitalism and communism.
	faculty.cua.edu /pennington/Law111/PapalSocialEncyclicals.htm (540 words)

	The Catholic Standard and Times - Front Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Further inalienable rights, as identified in Rerum Novarum and reiterated in Centesimus Annus, include the right to establish private associations (“unions”;), the limitation of working hours, the right to legitimate rest, and the right of women and children to be treated differently with regard to the type and duration of work (cf.
		Pope John Paul II explained that Rerum Novarum “is thus an Encyclical on the poor and on the terrible conditions to which the new and often violent process of industrialization had reduced great multitudes of people.
		Like Rerum Novarum, Centesimus Annus takes its place among the wealth of the Church’s social doctrine which has ever at heart the needs, the sufferings and the advancement of those in poverty.
	www.cst-phl.com /051027/main.html (1162 words)

	Rerum Novarum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rerum Novarum (Translation: Of New Things) is an encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII on May 15, 1891.
		Many of the positions in Rerum Novarum were supplemented by later encyclicals, especially Pius XI's Quadragesimo Anno (1931), John XXIII's Mater et Magistra (1961), and John Paul II's Centesimus Annus (1991).
		Rerum Novarum is generally accepted to be the founding document of Christian Democracy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rerum_Novarum (611 words)

	Rerum Novarum to Mater et Magistra
		Rerum Novarum teaches: First, the advancement of the industrialization period brought about injustice in the society through the inhumanity of employers and the unguided method of competition.
		Socialism attempted to solve this increasing problem but was condemned by the Church which She proposed the equitable relationship between capital and labor instead.
		Rerum Novarum was a giant step of the Church towards making an alliance with the workers and the poor while resisting the Church’s temptation to ally with the bourgeois.
	www.clerus.org /clerus/dati/2003-10/03-13/03DsIN.html (2413 words)

	Trinity Foundation: Explaining God, man, Bible, salvation, philosophy, theology. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Since Centesimus Annus was issued in commemoration of Rerum Novarum, the pope began by praising Rerum Novarum as an immortal document,’’ and continued: the vital energies rising from that root have not been spent with the passing of the years, but rather have increased even more.
		This re-reading of Rerum Novarum by John Paul II preserved the Marxist flavor of the encyclical-an unsophisticated labor theory of value, the economic class structure of society, and the class struggle-and endorsed it.
		Sirico admitted that ìRerum Novarum became the springboard for the burgeoning labor movement in America and Europe’’ and that ìTo the [social] reformer’s [sic] mind, Leo’s encyclical gave them the support and recognition they needed to carry out their program’’ (Sirico, ìCatholicism’s Developing Social Teaching,’’ 467).
	www.trinityfoundation.org /journal.php?id=131 (3368 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Centesimus Annus (On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum)
		This is evident from the various initiatives which have preceded, and which are to accompany and follow the celebration, initiatives promoted by episcopal conferences, by international agencies, universities and academic institutes, by professional associations and by other institutions and individuals in many parts of the world.
		These same reforms were also partly the result of an open process by which society organized itself through the establishment of effective instruments of solidarity, which were capable of sustaining an economic growth more respectful of the values of the person.
		May the memory of those terrible events guide the actions of everyone, particularly the leaders of nations in our own time, when other forms of injustice are fueling new hatreds and when new ideologies which exalt violence are appearing on the horizon.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=3371 (13664 words)

	SocialReconstruction
		In this Document the Supreme Shepherd, grieving for the "misery and wretchedness pressing unjustly" on such a large proportion of mankind, boldly took in his own hands the cause of workingmen, "surrended, isolated and helpless, to the hard-heartedness of employers and the greed of unchecked competition".
		The Doctrine of Rerum Novarum began little by little to penetrate among those also who, being outside Catholic unity, do not recognize the Authority of the Church; and thus Catholic principles of sociology gradually became part of the intellectual heritage of the whole human race.
		It prevailed upon the peoples themselves to develop their social policy more intensely and on truer lines, and encouraged the elite among Catholics to give such efficacious help and assistance to Rulers of the State, that in Legislature Assemblies they were not infrequently the foremost advocates of the new policy.
	home.earthlink.net /~slrorer/SocialReconstruction.htm (4012 words)

	From Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum to John Paul II’s Centesimus Annus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Comparing the social encyclicals by popes in the first century after the publication of Rerum Novarum, one can notice an evolution not only in their attitude toward the real political-economic situation but also in their postulated social solutions.
		It seems that an analysis of the contents of the encyclicals gives one the right to propose the statement that the general view of political-economic life is rather similar and quite comparable to the model of democratic capitalism in the first encyclicals.
		In Rerum Novarum (1891) and Quadragesimo Anno (1931), the two cornerstones of modern Catholic social teaching, the language is crisp in a way that is largely absent in the later encyclicals.
	www.acton.org /publicat/m_and_m/2002_spring/zieba.html (2970 words)

	Social Action Office - Catholic Social Teaching
		Rerum Novarum was a watershed in the life of the modern Church because it situated the Church in the social, political and economic ferment of the late nineteenth century and it began a tradition of engagement with the social order which slowly took shape over the next century.
		Rerum Novarum opened the Church up to consideration of the socio-economic, political and cultural forces that were shaping and continue to shape the modern world.
		In general, the encyclicals have taken issue with many facets of the contemporary world which are deemed to violate the essential dignity of the human person and trample upon justice and the common good of the global community.
	sao.clriq.org.au /cst/cst_intro.html (2337 words)

	Rerum Novarum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Onaiyekan, "Rerum Novarum: Its Message for the Church in Africa Today: Reflections of a Nigerian Bishop," pp.
		Patricia H. Werhane, "The Obligatory Nature of Stewardship in Rerum Novarum and Its Relevance to the American Economy," pp.
		Kernan, W.F. "Rerum Novarum and Labor." Commonweal 26 (6 August 1937) 357-58; 26 (13 August 1937) 379-81.
	www.shc.edu /theolibrary/resources/bibliog_rerum.htm (2879 words)

	ON THE 105TH ANNIVERSARY OF RERUM NOVARUM
		My first encyclical was Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum or The Condition of Labor (an encyclical is a letter from the Pope to the Bishops etc.) This letter was written about 105 years ago but is still quite valid today.
		Pope John Paul II’s letter celebrating the “Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum” states that certain objectives of Rerum Novarum still remain valid and in some cases are goals yet to be met (no. 34).
		What Leo did in Rerum Novarum was to place the church very firmly in the center of the moral issues involved, especially about workers.
	www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~zablocki/mccarth1.html (683 words)

	Miscellaneous
		Though argumentation fallacies are a subject that has been covered many times at Rerum Novarum (and will continue to be) it is not often that one finds themselves defining argumentation fallacies that have rarely been explicitly explained before.
		Strangely enough, Rerum Novarum is fast approaching its 1800th posting and the subject about to be touched on here has never been discussed in the manner it is about to be.
		Those who follow Rerum Novarum are aware of a couple of these viewpoints to which I refer so I will not belabour this brief weblog entry with examples.
	rerum-novarum-misc.blogspot.com (10782 words)

	Pursuit of Liberty: Rerum Novarum. 1-15, Man and Property [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In this they are not alone, as you will read, for example, in the next section or Rerum Novarum.
		Communist answer, for what it's worth, is not anarchist either: the state must reflect the collective interest of the working class regardless of interests of the individuals in either class.
		Rerum Novarum speaks of that in the subsequent section.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b2577a62b1d.htm (6782 words)

	Pursuit of Liberty: Rerum Novarum. 31-47, The State [Free Republic]
		Rerum Novarum refers to the same dilemma in paragraph 44: at some point exchange of labor for pay becomes a matter of life preservation and the society may intervene in order to protect life.
		It is the soul which is made after the image and likeness of God; it is in the soul that the sovereignty resides in virtue whereof man is commanded to rule the creatures below him and to use all the earth and the ocean for his profit and advantage.
		Rerum Novarum is the road map of the road not taken but it may yet serve as a Magna Carta for mankind.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b34dfe70a39.htm (5167 words)

	Studs Terkel - Rerum Novarum
		It was on this date, May 16, 1891, that Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical Rerum novarum, on the "Condition of Labor," about the relations of employer and employee.
		That the churches provided any service whatsoever to working people until the last century, aside from relieving them under false pretenses of much of their hard-earned money, is about as phony a claim as that of faith-healers.
		Worse, in 1931 Pius XI issued the encyclical Quadragesimo anno, which (¶¶ 91-94, 133) repudiated Rerum novarum by endorsing the Fascist-Corporate State.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0516almanac.htm (545 words)

	John Paul II's Memorial to 'Rerum Novarum': a summary of 'Centesimus Annus'
		Pope John Paul II has marked the hundredth anniversary of the 1891 publication of Leo XIII's first Encyclical on the Christian organisation of society, 'Rerum Novarum' ('Of new things'), with his new Encyclical, 'Centesimus Annus' ('The hundredth year').
		The dangers which the Pope foresees are of a possible revival of totalitarian controls, the domination of new societies by consumerist practices, and the rise of religious fundamentalism, which is perhaps natural granted the apocalyptic nature of the age.
		As for remedies, the Pope went back to apply the principles of Rerum Novarum to a completely new and highly technological age.
	www.ad2000.com.au /articles/1991/jun1991p3_705.html (1274 words)

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