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Aided by fresh insights from the fields of comparative religion and depth psychology

The Church and Labor Popes surely hope—like the spirit ofEdited 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