Quadragesimo Anno

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1. The World in 1891-1931
2. Pope Pius XI
3. Quadragesimo Anno the Encyclical
4. Summary

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The World in 1891-1931
Rerum Novarum
Quadragesimo Anno
Timeline
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The World in 1891-1931
1891 Rerum Novarum Pope Leo XIII
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The World in 1891-1931

• 1893
• Panic of 1893
• Credit shortage
• Economic depression
• Unemployment
• Violent protests

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The World in 1891-1931

• 1894
• Pullman Strike in the U.S.A.
• Pullman company town
• Wage cuts, no rent cuts
• American Railway Union support
• Violent protests

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The World in 1891-1931

• 1914-1918
• World War I
• Central Powers
• (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey)
• Triple Entente
• (Great Britain, France, and Russia)

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The World in 1891-1931

• 1917
• The Russian Revolution
• Lenin establishes Dictatorship of the
  Proletariat

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The World in 1891-1931
Winston Churchill
Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler

• 1919-1939
• Totalitarian
• vs
• Democratic State
• Rise of Fascism, Communism, Nazism

Vladimir Lenin
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The World in 1891-1931
Feb. 6, 1922 Pope Pius XI Elected
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The World in 1891-1931

• Oct. 31, 1922
• Fascist March on Rome
• King Victor Emmanuel II invites Mussolini to
  come to Rome to take power

King Victor Emmanuel II
Benito Mussolini
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The World in 1891-1931

• 1924
• Stalin wins power struggle in Communist Russia

Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
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The World in 1891-1931

• Oct. 29, 1929
• U.S. Stock Market Collapse
• Great Depression begins
• World-wide economic crisis

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The World in 1891-1931

• 1931
• Nazis rise to power in Fascist Germany

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The World in 1891-1931
May 15, 1931 Quadragesimo Anno Pope Pius XIs
encyclical On Reconstruction of the Social Order
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Pope Pius XI

• Born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti
• Accomplished scholar, librarian, and priest
• Vice prefect of Vatican Library under Pius X
• 65 years old when elected Pope
• Spoke out for human dignity
• Spoke out against nationalism, racism,
  anti-Semitism, and totalitarianism
• 1931 Papal letter Non abbiamo bisogno one could
  not be both Fascist and Catholic.

Boo
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POP QUIZ!
Pope Pius XI established
A. The Feast of Christ the King
B. Vatican City as an Independent State
C. Vatican Radio
D. All of the above.
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Pope Pius XI

• Dec. 11, 1925
• Quas Primas
• Established Feast of Christ the King

We remember saying that these manifold evils in
the world were due to the fact that the majority
of men had thrust Jesus Christ and his holy law
out of their lives
as long as individuals and states refused to
submit to the rule of our Savior, there would be
no really hopeful prospect of a lasting peace
among nations
Men must look for the peace of Christ in the
Kingdom of Christ. ( 1)
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Pope Pius XI
Benito Mussolini

• June 7, 1929
• Lateran Treaty
• Independent State of the Vatican

Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Gasparri (on
behalf of Pope Pius XI)
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Pope Pius XI

• Feb. 12, 1929
• Vatican Radio
• Established by Guglielmo Marconi and inaugurated
  by Pius XI

Quick Question What is Marconi renowned for
inventing?
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Pope Pius XI
Quick Question With what Marian apparition is
St. Bernadette associated?
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Quadragesimo Anno
(40th Year)

• 40th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum
• Pope Pius XIs encyclical on The Reconstruction
  of the Social Order

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Three main parts
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Part 1 Impact of Rerum Novarum (1-39)
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Impact of Rerum Novarum
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Part 2 Clarifying and Developing the Social
Economic Doctrine of Rerum Novarum (40-98)
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The Dignity of the Human
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Role of the Church
Does the Church have a right to speak on social
and economic matters?
Church is committed with the deposit of truth. 41
Churchs duty to interpret and teach moral law.
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Condition of workers affects human dignity.
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Property Rights
Twin rocks of shipwreck. 46
Individualism
Collectivism
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Capital and Labor
Capital has appropriated too much to itself. 54
Riches of socio-economic developments should
benefit the common good. 57
Is the Church promoting distribution to those who
refuse to contribute?
If any man will not work neither let him eat. 2
Thes. 310 We must not be a burden to others
when we can provide for ourselves. 57
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Reform of Social Order
We are presented with two S words. What are
they?
A. Sub Sandwich
B. Solitaire and Slap-jack
C. Solidarity and Subsidiarity
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Solidarity
The Human Family
Responsibility for One-Another
Just wage opportunity to acquire private
ownership. 63
Work-contract ? Partnership-contract Employees
become sharers in ownership. 65
Abuse of women children in the workplace is
wrong. 71
Low wage to fathers mothers forced to work
children neglected. 71
Sufficient wage to support family. 71
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Subsidiarity
Matters ought to be handled by the smallest,
lowest or least centralized competent authority.
It is an injustice and grave evil to assign to
a greater and higher association what lesser and
subordinate organizations can do. 79
A central authority should perform only those
tasks which cannot be performed effectively at a
more immediate or local level.
The State will do all those things that belong
to it alone because it alone can do them
directing, watching, urging, restraining, as
occasion requires and necessity demands. 80
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Part 3 Criticism of Economic Dictatorship,
Socialism and Communism (99-148)
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Criticism of Economic Dictatorship
Contribution of Greed Free competition has
destroyed itselfEconomic dictatorship has
supplanted the free marketThe State has become a
slave to greed. (109)
Contribution of Industrialization Laboris not
a mere commodity. On the contrary, the worker's
human dignity in it must be recognized. It
therefore cannot be bought and sold like a
commodity. 83 People and raw materials
entered factories, which ennobled the raw
materials and degraded the people. (135)
A Socialist Solution?
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Criticism of Socialism
Socialism can not be reconciled with the
teachings of the Catholic Church because its
concept of society is utterly foreign to
Christian truth. (117) Religious socialism,
Christian socialism, are contradictory terms no
one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a
true socialist. (120) Having surveyed the
present economic system, We have found it
laboring under the gravest of evils. We have also
summoned Communism and Socialism again to
judgment and have found all their forms, even the
most modified, to wander far from the precepts of
the Gospel. (128)
Criticism of Communism
One section of Socialism has sunk into
CommunismCommunism teaches and seeks two
objectives unrelenting class warfare and
extermination of private property
ownership Communism is cruel and inhumanit is
an enemy and openly hostile to the Holy Church
and to God Himself. (112)
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The Popes Remedies
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The Popes Remedies
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Summary

1. Positive impact of Rerum Novarum on Church,
   civil authorities, and other concerned parties
2. Clarifies and develops social and economic
   principles in calling for the reconstruction of
   the social order based on the principles of
   S----- and S------
3. Warns of the dangers of unrestrained capitalism,
   and against a socialist solution.