Make a research of the following Documents, and answer the following Questions.

RERUM NOVARUM
QUADRAGESIMO ANNO

MODULE 2

RERUM NOVARUM

1. What ‘new things” are being referred to by Rerum Novarum?

2. How did the encyclical support the right to private property? How did it limit such a right?
3. How does it condemn socialism?
4. How does the encyclical view the relationship between the rich and the poor?
5. What is the foremost duty of the employer?
6. What duty, if any does the rich have in helping the poor?
7. What is Pope Leo XX1’s stand on workers associations?