Right to Private Property Articles

Karl Marx and Catholic Social Teaching

Karl Marx’s greatest error was anthropological. He thought that once the economy had been put right, everything would automatically be put right.

Socialism disposes of the right to private property and hands over the production of goods to the state.

The top 10 Pope Leo XIII quotes on private property, all of which come from his landmark encyclical, Rerum Novarum.

“The seventh commandment requires…respect for the right to private property”. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2401)

All, Economics, Right to Private Property, Socialism

Karl Marx's greatest error was anthropological. He thought that once the economy had been put right, everything would automatically be put right.

All, Right to Private Property, Socialism

Socialism disposes of the right to private property and hands over the production of goods to the state.

All, Right to Private Property

The top 10 Pope Leo XIII quotes on private property, all of which come from his landmark encyclical, Rerum Novarum.

All, Culture, Right to Private Property

"The seventh commandment requires…respect for the right to private property". (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2401)