Pope Leo XIII’s motives and inspiration for writing the Rerum Novarum came from the society being a mess in terms of industrialization and discoveries in science, master and workman relationship, income inequality among rich and poor, rise of labor unions in working class, and the continued moral degeneracy. Socialism, which is mainly about a community of goods or communal property, is condemned by Leo XIII as it creates chaos against the natural order of things. Socialists argue that to remedy the poor man’s envy for the rich, private property should be abolished and substituted with a property Continue reading...