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A few interesting excerpts from Rerum Novarum in the context of current society.

Rerum Novarum was the basis of catholic social teaching since, so...

I think the most interesting thing is that he has specially mentioned Rerum Novarum as a reason for choosing the name Leo.

Having re-read Rerum Novarum within the last week, what you are saying is reductive to the point of not accurately portraying the contents of the encyclical.

Rerum Novarum is a good one to start with.

As an example, I saw a commentary that the prior Pope Leo's Rerum novarum was not really that influential until a few decades after it was written.

I’m a Rerum Novarum appreciator personally.

Catholic doctrine on the issue sounds pretty close to Bob's - see Rerum Novarum [1], Quadragesimo Anno [2], Populorum Progressio [3], Centesimus Annus [4], Caritas in Veritate [5], and Fratelli Tutti [6] for various expressions of the doctrine over the modern era.

While this concern certainly exists to some extent in the Church, and may be somewhere in the Pope's thoughts, his explicit comparison to the Industrial Revolution and Rerum Novarum 's response to it, and to it as a threat not only to human dignity but also to justice and labor, indicates that a—arguably the—major concern is for it as a potential occasion of and force for material mistreatment.

On the contrary, at the time Rerum Novarum was written, "socialism" was not understood narrowly as "whatever Soviets did".

Furthermore, Leo states that the working man has, "has interests in which he should be protected by the State," namely their spiritual and physical well-being (Rerum novarum 40).

“rerum novarum” and “laborem execrens”, papal encyclicals on labor and capital.

In fact, one of the problems the previous Pope Leo warned about in "Rerum Novarum" was not just the intentional abuse of power through technological advances but the unintentional negative consequences of treating industry as a good in itself, rather than a domain that is in service to human interests.

The encyclical he references, Rerum Novarum, can be found here [0] and is much more interesting since it's more than just a single sentence.

I simply factually suggested that it could be of interest to (re-)read the Rerum Novarum.

I don't think Opus Dei spends a lot of time discussing Rerum Novarum, honestly.