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'''Pope Leo XIII''' <ref>[http://w2.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en.html LEO XIII]</ref> born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was [[Pope]] from February 20, 1878 to July 20, 1903.
'''Pope Leo XIII''' <ref>[http://w2.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en.html LEO XIII]</ref> born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was [[Pope]] from February 20, 1878 to July 20, 1903.
He published many encyclicals, his most widely recognized is titled ''Rerum Novarum''.
He published many encyclicals, his most widely recognized is titled ''Rerum Novarum''. His Holiness Pope Leo XIII also improved relations with the Eastern Churches.
== Rerum Novarum ==
== Rerum Novarum ==
Rerum Novarum also rejects the socialist notion of unrelenting class opposition: "The great mistake made in regard to the matter now under consideration is to take up with the notion that class is naturally hostile to class, and that the wealthy and the working men are intended by nature to live in mutual conflict. So irrational and so false is this view that the direct contrary is the truth. Just as the symmetry of the human frame is the result of the suitable arrangement of the different parts of the body, so in a State is it ordained by nature that these two classes should dwell in harmony and agreement, so as to maintain the balance of the body politic. Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital. Mutual agreement results in the beauty of good order, while perpetual conflict necessarily produces confusion and savage barbarity." Christian teaching counsels and encourages the rich to be kind and merciful to the poor and the poor to rise in society by good work and honest labor. It also demands of employers to strive for just working conditions for all.
Rerum Novarum also rejects the socialist notion of unrelenting class opposition: "The great mistake made in regard to the matter now under consideration is to take up with the notion that class is naturally hostile to class, and that the wealthy and the working men are intended by nature to live in mutual conflict. So irrational and so false is this view that the direct contrary is the truth. Just as the symmetry of the human frame is the result of the suitable arrangement of the different parts of the body, so in a State is it ordained by nature that these two classes should dwell in harmony and agreement, so as to maintain the balance of the body politic. Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital. Mutual agreement results in the beauty of good order, while perpetual conflict necessarily produces confusion and savage barbarity." Christian teaching counsels and encourages the rich to be kind and merciful to the poor and the poor to rise in society by good work and honest labor. It also demands of employers to strive for just working conditions for all.
==Orientalium Dignitas==
Pope Leo XIII wrote about the rights of the Eastern Churches. Pope Leo XIII favored the Eastern Churches preserving their own Tradition: "It has most especially been the habit of the Roman Church, the head of all the Churches, to render to the Churches of the East a great degree of honor and love in remembrance of the Apostles, to rejoice in her turn in their faithful obedience. Amidst changing and difficult times, she has never failed in any way in farsightedness and acts of kindness to sustain them against the forces that would strike them again and again, to hold fast to those that were overwhelmed, to call back those in discord with her. Nor was it the last expression of her watchfulness that she guard and preserve in them whole and entire forever the customs and distinct forms for administering the sacraments that she had declared legitimate in her wise jurisdiction." <ref>https://www.papalencyclicals.net/leo13/l13orient.htm</ref>
==References==
==References==