SOCIAL ECONOMY AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
SOCIAL ECONOMY AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Summary/Abstract: The social teaching of the Catholic Church is a continuous process, but it began to crystallize more than one hundred and twenty years ago, in 1891, when Rerum novarum, the first major social encyclical, was issued. For the educated reader, this encyclical is well-known. What is perhaps less underscored is the role and life of its author: Pope Leo XIII, who did nothing more than to interpret, brilliantly, a fundamental, elementary truth of the Gospel. The entire social teaching is about the relationship between man and God, the supreme authority. Everything else is a history of mankind where the primary role, in chronological and axiological order, is played by family, by man in relation to the State. The principle of subsidiarity is the cornerstone of social teaching and its keystone over which the road into today’s turbulent history continued.

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