The Church and Labor Popes Pope Benedict XVI offered a

Pope Benedict XVI offered a light: the Church is always—and has always been—a “creative minority

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our calendar is simply a way by which the revolutions of the earth around itself and around the sun are measured… In faith

The Church and Labor Popes Pope Benedict XVI offered aEdited by Joseph Husslein, S. J., & John A. Ryan When Pope Leo XIII issued his encyclical on capital and labor, Rerum novarum, on May 15, 1891, he did not invent a new field of doctrine: Catholic Social Teaching. Rather, he continued a tradition, invoking the authority of his office to articulate the timeless principles of the Gospel and apply them to the social mores and industrial practices of the modern age. For the revolutions in industry and