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The road to Rerum Novarum and the evolution of Catholic social teaching

August 24, 2022 Michael D. Greaney 8

From the pontificate of Gregory XVI down to the present day, there has been an ongoing crisis precipitated by the advent of the “New Things” (rerum novarum) of socialism and modernism. Since 1832 and the […]

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