Anonymous ID: 24b949 Sept. 16, 2025, 11:08 a.m. No.23609830   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9837

future proves past

 

Subtitled "Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour”, or occasionally “On the Condition of the Working Class,” Rerum Novarum begins with the above passage.

 

It says the prevailing moral degeneracy is partnered with a parasitic economic system which has emerged from the advancement of science, technology and industry.

 

It warns that a “revolutionary spirit” moves throughout all these spheres.

 

– Rerum Novarum Given at St. Peter's in Rome, the fifteenth day of May, 1891, the fourteenth year of Our pontificate. - LEO XIII

 

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html