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Quotation from Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII
“The law, therefore, should favor ownership, and its policy should be to induce as many as possible of the humbler class to become owners.”
Rerum Novarum, The duties of the State, on ownership, trans. Anonymous (Benziger, 1903)
Leo's positive proposal: not the abolition of property but its wide distribution.
Citation: "The law, therefore, should favor ownership, and its policy should be to induce as many as possible of the humbler class to become owners." — Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, The duties of the State, on ownership, trans. Anonymous (Benziger, 1903). (id rerum-novarum-q7)
Portrait: Papa Leone XIII (3x4 cropped), Braun et Compagnie, Public domain.
