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Quadragesimo Anno: Encyclical of Pope Pius XI on Reconstruction of the Social Order

Pope Pius XI · Holy See · 1931

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EstablishedRerum Novarum (1891) states that the law should favour ownership and induce as many as possible of the people to become owners; Quadragesimo Anno (1931) states that it is wrong to assign to a higher association what lesser organisations can do (subsidiarity).