Word: quadragesimo
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...deputy chairman described the parallel development of the political thought of the Roman Catholic Church through the years, citing the Papal encyclical Rerum Novarum in 1891 and Quadragesimo Anno...
...hard to take. But as the West began to put out its lights and erect its barricades, more &. more of the hierarchy and priesthood began to study Leo's words. Even the most politically conservative could no longer ignore them when in 1931 scholarly Pius XI, in his Quadragesimo Anno, called upon the priesthood to select good Catholics for labor leadership and to undertake "intense study of social matters...
Most tangible U.S. result of Quadragesimo Anno is the growing Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, founded in 1937 to promote good unionism among Catholic workers and good Catholicism among unionists. Individual priests, like Pittsburgh's rambunctious Father Charles Rice, have marched in picket lines and attacked the bosses as ardently as any card-holding Communist. But as to the general labor attitude of the working priesthood, there have been few reliable straws in the wind. Last week, trend spotters had one to chew...
...urged decent wage standards. State regulation of industry, more equal distribution of wealth, broader ownership of property, and much else that was "radical" then. Forty years later, calling Rerum Novarum "the Magna Charta of all Catholic activity in the social sphere," Pius XI confirmed, developed and enlarged it in Quadragesimo Anno...
...young priest in Oregon helped draft the U.S.'s first minimum-wage law and became the defendant in Stettler v. O'Hara when the law was tested and upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1931 he was the only American bishop present when Pius XI delivered Quadragesimo Anno, and spoke for the U.S. as delegates from each Christian nation reported the effects of Rerum Novarum. "I often think," he says, "of the contrast between that pilgrimage of representatives of free labor and of today when free labor organizations practically have disappeared in Europe." Chief instrument...