Month: January 2004

Catholic efforts to combat unemployment

by Bruce Duncan CSsR Source: The Australasian Catholic Record (January 2004), pp. 17 – 31. Republished with permission. This paper considers how the Catholic Church internationally and in Australia has tried to grapple with the issues of employment and unemployment since Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical, On the Condition of the Working Class (Rerum Novarum), […]

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