Archive:Rerum Novarum

• KI Director Reflects on 125th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum

  Exactly 125 years ago, in 1891, the industrializing world was going through a traumatic transformation that should seem familiar to us today: new technologies were transforming work; people were being uprooted by economic process from the lands of their birth and their traditional ways of life and drawn to the centers of the new economy, fleeing the collapsing worlds their parents had known and seeking new and better ones; millions of immigrants, emigrants, and migrants were crossing borders and seeking new homes; cities were growing and their problems were multiplying; tensions were emerging as cultures clashed; xenophobia was ignited (in the US it took the form of the American Protective Association, which sought to ban Catholic immigrants to this country); inequality was surging as some reaped enormous, unprecedented, and obscene profits from the new economy while others suffered egregious exploitation.

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• Rerum Novarum: Worker Justice in the Church and on Campus

  This year marks the 125th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum (new window), Pope Leo XIII’s pivotal 19th century encyclical that laid the foundation for Catholic teaching on labor and the dignity of work. More than a century later, these principles remain profoundly relevant to our society and our campus community on the Hilltop.

  Categories: Events, Just Employment Policy Tags: Catholic Chaplaincy, Catholic social teaching, Catholic Student Fellowship, Center for Social Justice, Events, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, Georgetown University, Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, Living Wage, Population Health Initiative, Rerum Novarum, Right to Organize, Social Justice, Worker Rights