Leo XIII Knew Socialism Would Fail Because it was Evil - Crisis Magazine

Leo XIII Knew Socialism Would Fail Because it was Evil - Crisis Magazine: It is generally held that Catholic Social Teaching begins with Pope Leo XIII’s masterly encyclical, Rerum Novarum (1891).  That, as I’ve tried to show, is a dreadful mistake.  Pope Leo considered it his duty to apply to current concerns the constant teaching of the Church and of the word of God.  Like Thomas Aquinas, the …