The present age has handed over the working poor to inhumane employers and greedy competitors. (a. 6) He saw the working poor as needy and helpless, (a. 66)

And they are insufficiently protected against injustices and violence. (a. 32)

2. What did he want the working poor to understand?

He wanted the working poor to understand that the lowest in society cannot be made equal with the highest and that poverty is no disgrace. (a. 37)

To suffer and endure is human. (a. 27)

The working poor are told not to injure the property or person of their employers and not to forcibly the property of others. (a. 55)

3. What was the moral component of Leo's message?

The message to the working poor seems to be aimed at calming and consoling the poor, encouraging them to accept their position in society without rancor and without harm to others. Leo sought to enlist the aid of the working poor in preserving good order.

4. What did Leo say to those who work with the poor?

Leo XIII declared that the working poor must be cared for. Employers have clear moral obligations: workers are not to be treated

The immediate object of unions is the private advantage of those associated, so that workers are to use their unions to secure increase in goods of body, soul and prosperity. (a. 71)

Protection of the goods of the worker's soul. (a. 57)

· Briefly summarise the popes intention and purpose for the Rerum Novarum.

Must be regarded as sacred. (a. 65)

Safeguard the well-being and interests of workers. (a. 49)

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