The Common Good Articles

A Rerum Novarum Summary

Rerum Novarum was groundbreaking in addressing the struggles of the working class and societal challenges during the Industrial Revolution.

The Common Good is a Result, not a Principle
The “common good” is a critical concept and – an aspirational result: “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily”. (CCC, 1906)

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