Members may know that all papal encyclicals issued through the Vatican are named by their opening words.
I am concerned with an encyclical called "Rerum Novarum", which was issued by Pope Leo XIII on 15 May 1891. It opens with this sentence:
Rerum novarum semel excitata cupidine, quae diu quidem commovet civitates, illud erat consecuturum ut commutationum studia a rationibus politicis in oeconomicarum cognatum genus aliquando defluerent.
The official English...
Rerum novarum
I am concerned with an encyclical called "Rerum Novarum", which was issued by Pope Leo XIII on 15 May 1891. It opens with this sentence:
Rerum novarum semel excitata cupidine, quae diu quidem commovet civitates, illud erat consecuturum ut commutationum studia a rationibus politicis in oeconomicarum cognatum genus aliquando defluerent.
The official English...
Rerum novarum






