Quadragesimo Anno - Definition and Overview

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)

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