Is Rerum Novarum the Answer to Today's Labor Crisis?

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Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Fr. Gregory and Fr. Joseph-Anthony delve into the meaning behind Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum on this episode of Godsplaining. Is there a middle ground between capitalism and socialism? What exactly does Pope Leo XIII address in this encyclical? How do the friars recommend we contribute to our communities? Meet up with the friars in Boston for a Day of Recollection!https://godsplaining.org/day-of-recollection-boston-ma-march-2026/ Read Rerum Novarum, encyclical by Pope Leo XIII here: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html Send your questions for the friars to:godsplaining@opeast.org Subscribe to our channelhttps://www.youtube.com/c/Godsplaining Support the Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/godsplaining Shop our merch store: https://godsplaining.org/store/ Shop Books Written by the FriarsYour Eucharistic Identity: https://ignatius.com/your-eucharistic-identity-yeip/St. Dominic's Way of Life: https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Dominics-Way-Life-Knowing/dp/1681929392Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly: https://www.amazon.com/Prudence-Choose-Confidently-Live-Boldly/dp/1681927322/ Connect on Social MediaFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godsplaining/Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/godsplaining/Follow us on X: https://x.com/godsplaining To learn more about the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.opeast.orgTo support the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.dominicanfriars.org

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0:00.0	This is Father Gregory Pine.
0:06.9	This is Father Joseph Anthony Cress.
0:08.6	And welcome to Godsplending.
0:09.7	Thanks to all those who support us.
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0:14.2	Be sure to like and subscribe to Godsplining wherever you listen to your podcasts.
0:18.7	All right, Father Joseph Anthony.
0:19.9	Talk to me.
0:20.3	What's happening, baby? I suppose the question as to what constitutes a new thing depends upon when you live
0:28.5	and whether those things are new for you. We're going to get into a discussion on Rarum Navarum,
0:34.9	which concerns those new things of 1891, which to us perhaps
0:39.7	don't seem like new things. Like if you were to say new things of 2025, what would you think
0:44.3	of first? Oh, I immediately go to AI, like Chad GPT, like all of the kind of AI suites and
0:52.0	tools that are out there. Those are just radically new. I'm fascinated by them. I used Google Gemini for the first time the other day, and I was like, man, this is wild. I'm a chat GPT, bro, myself. Yeah. I haven't jumped over the Gemini train. Yeah, it was just for image creation, but mostly for jokes. I've used AI mostly for jokes. Oh, same here. Yeah. Which goes to show the excellence with which I leverage the tools at our fingertips.
1:17.4	Yeah, what are the things I think, what are the things we constitute newness?
1:23.3	I've had some stomach troubles recently.
1:26.1	And apparently if you had stomach troubles like 25 years ago, you'd just kind of be hosed when it came to dietetic options. But now you've got all kinds of wild options. Yeah. Dude, I'm like a little supplement monster. I'm also like a little this free, that, free the other thing, free monster. Right now, yeah. Which is great. Caged free. Yeah, exactly. You know me.
1:45.1	Yeah, yeah. All the chickens that I eat had names previously.
1:50.2	Cage free, I don't know if that actually is at all related. Moving on. Other things that would
1:54.4	constitute newness. I've actually, so St. Thomas uses the words newness of life to describe
2:00.0	the resurrection with frequency. Okay. Because the liturgy uses newness of life. It does. Yeah. To characterize, you know, like things post-resurrection. Um, so I, so I think in terms of life in this post-resurrection dispensation, okay, but that's, not to say that it's besides the point. it's all to the point. The chichet is the thing. But we want to talk here about Rarum Navarum,
2:21.2	and the reason for which is because
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