Resumen de Reason and religion in "Rerum Novarum"
In his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum Pope Leo XIII forged an “antecedent genre” that set the terms for a century of Catholic rhetoric on social justice. This essay explains how Leo, bound by doctrinal constraints, tried to transcend the Church's longstanding conflict with modernism by using the natural law philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
