The Papal Encyclical RERUM NOVARUM Can Christianity and Capitalism Co-exist?

Saturday June 21st at 5:00 PM
The Papal Encyclical RERUM NOVARUM –
Can Christianity and Capitalism Co-Exist, or
Are They at Odds with Each Other?
Meetings # 3,823 -collefe regular Tim Bolger
The speaker states that he will cover the following:
"Does Christianity approve of free market capitalism for personal profit? Or should the capitalist be made to share all the profits? Does someone who does no work get any profits? Why do many work hard but get few profits?

What if chasing profit isn’t the problem—but ignoring justice is? Before you defend capitalism or condemn it, ask yourself, does your faith shape your economics, or does your economics reshape your faith?

The answer to these question can be found in RERUM NOVARUM ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII."

"The rich must religiously refrain from cutting down the workmen’s earnings, whether by force, by fraud, or by usurious dealing; and the poor should not put their trust in deceitful promises, or try to gain by riot what they cannot get by honest labor."
— Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (1891)

This piece explores the moral and theological implications of free-market capitalism through the lens of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, examining the balance between personal profit, social responsibility, and the rights of workers. It addresses whether Christian doctrine condones individual profit, the ethical obligation to share wealth, and why disparities in labor and reward persist in capitalist systems.

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