Quadragesimo Anno
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Quadragesimo Anno is an encyclical by Pope Pius XI, issued 15 May 1931, 40 years after Rerum Novarum (thus the name, Latin for 'the fortieth year'). Written as a response to the Great Depression, it calls for the establishment of a social order based on the principle of subsidiarity. Some of its features share the same economic anti-capitalist, anti-communist analysis as fascism, including the idea of representation by vocation and social position, rather than simple democracy.
External links
- text of Quadragesimo Anno (http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno_en.html)
- Summary of Quadragesimo Anno, from US Catholic (http://www.uscatholic.org/cstline/tline.html)
- Summary of Quadragesimo Anno, from OSJSPM (http://www.osjspm.org/cst/doclist.htm)Template:RC-stub