Stunning Writing of Pope Leo XIII Resurfaces - Blasts Socialism, Defends Family, Demands Christians Speak Out
When explaining why he took the papal name Leo XIV, the former Robert Francis Prevost said there were “different reasons for this,” but “mainly because Pope Leo XIII, in his historic encyclical ‘Rerum Novarum’ addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution.”
“In our own day,” he added, “the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labour.”
It’s worth noting that “Rerum Novarum” is an important encyclical — one which laments certain economic injustices, but also affirms the dignity of the common man against the elite — and notes that “the socialists, working on the poor man’s envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies.”
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