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International Day of Families
The following reflection is from Andy Hamilton SJ. Andy is an Australian Jesuit, Consulting Editor of Eureka Street, Editorial Consultant to Australian Catholics, and a member of the communications team at Jesuit Social Services. The coronavirus has put enormous pressures on all of us as persons, and on the groups and institutions to which we… Read More »International Day of Families
1891: Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum (On the Condition of the Working Classes)
Rerum Novarum was a groundbreaking encyclical from Pope Leo Xlll in 1891 that laid the foundation for modern Catholic Social Teaching. It directly took up the issue of the dignity and rights of workers in a rapidly changing world where industrialisation had created an ever widening gap between the materially rich and the working poor.