Quadragesimo Anno

Quadragesimo Anno is an encyclical by Pope Pius XI, issued 15 May 1931, 40 years after Rerum Novarum (thus the name, Latin for 'the fortieth year'). Written as a response to the Great Depression, it calls for the establishment of a social order based on the principle of subsidiarity. Some of its features share the same economic anti-capitalist, anti-communist analysis as fascism, including the idea of representation by vocation and social position, rather than simple democracy.

External links

• text of Quadragesimo Anno
• Summary of Quadragesimo Anno, from US Catholic
• Summary of Quadragesimo Anno, from OSJSPM