RERUM NOVARUM

RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF

CAPITAL LABOR

REPORTED BY: JOLINA TANGARO AND KAREN

BALIGOD
 RERUM
NOVARUM
Introduction
 Pope Leo XIII
(2 March 1810 - 20 July 1903)

 born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi

Pecci to an Italian comital family

 was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic

Church

 reigning until the age of 93, he was the

oldest pope

 known for intellectualism, the development of social teachings

 Pope Leo XIII
(2 March 1810 - 20 July 1903)

 impacted Roman Catholic Mariology and

promoted both the rosary and the scapular.

 the first Pope to be filmed on the motion

picture camera

 first Pope of whom a sound recording

was made

 Papacy ended: 20 July 1903 (25 years,

150days)
 RERUM NOVARUM
 Rerum Novarum means “of New Thing” or Rights
and Duties of Capital Labor.
01  It is an encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII on
May 15, 1981.
02
 Rerum Novarum is remarkable for its vivid
03 depiction of the plight of the nineteenth-
century urban poor and for its
04 condemnation of unrestricted capitalism.
Among the remedies it prescribes are the
formation of trade unions and the
introduction of collective bargaining,
particularly as an alternative to state
intervention.
01  Rerum Novarum is subtitled "On the
02
Conditions of Labor“. Pope Leo set out
the Catholic Church's response to the
03 social conflict that had risen in the wake
of industrialization and that had led to
04 the rise of socialism.
01

02
Themes of
03
Rerum
04
Novarum
 Themes of Rerum Novarum
01
The just wage
Cooperation The dignity of
02 and workers'
between classes work
associations
03

04

05 Private
The role of the Defense of the
ownership of
06 state poor
property
01
01.
Cooperation between classes

 Based on cooperation between workers

and capitalists with rights and duties for
both.
 Rights and duties for both employer and
worker
 02.
02 The dignity of work

 Primary purpose of work is to provide a

decent life for worker and their families.
 Work's primary purpose is to provide for
a decent life.
 The worker does not exist for the sake of
the job.
 03.
The just wage and workers' associations
03

 Workers must receive a just wage and be

free to organize unions to negotiate work
conditions.
 04.
The role of the state

04

 Government should avoid interfering in

private matters, but has to take action
through laws for the good of society
 05.
Private ownership of property

 All people have a right to own property.

05  Distribution of property fairly for the
advancement of people.
 06.
Defense of the poor

 The protection and needs of the poor are

given a priority.
06  Christians and the government should
make the protection of the poor a priority
 PURPOSE

 Something must be done  Supports the rights of  States and “public

for the workers who are labor,rejects communism, institutions” have
01 suffering; and affirms the rights to rejected the faith;
private property
02

03

04  Guilds, which have  Wealth is in the hands of the

disappeared, cannot protect the few, which creates a new kind
worker; of slavery.
 Major Concepts
The roles of church The rights of people
The place of familial
and state and societal units
01
The roles of church Pope Leo XIII says The author is
02
and state as pertains that socialists are focused on the
03 to economics, social trying to abolish family as the most
responsibility, and private property, but important unit for
the rights of workers that he advocates for maintaining health,
are a major theme in the right of people to happiness, and
Rerum Novarum. own property. success.
 Rerum Novarum

01 "the fact that

02 the remedy
03 they propose is
04
manifestly
against justice"
01 "The fact that God has
given the earth for the
02
use and enjoyment of
03 the whole human race
04
can in no way be a bar
to the owning of
private property.”
01

02
"the true worth
03
and nobility of
04
man lie in his
moral qualities"
 "It is gratifying to know that
01 there are actually in existence
02 not a few associations of this
nature, consisting either of
03 workmen alone, or of workmen
and employers together, but it
04 were greatly desired that they
should become more numerous
and more efficient."