social lectures

IIn a recent book Pierre Pierrard states that Fr. Dehon "perceived with a particular acuity the mutations of French society -- especially the ascent of the workers' class.... Fascinated by 'Rerum Novarum' Leo Dehon again and again refers to this encyclical in order to compile a real social doctrine, a pastoral practice and a Christian plan for society and men. For this dynamic the title of the 1900 published book 'The Christian Social Renewal' is quite characteristic." (Pierre Pierrard, Ces chrétiens qui ont fait le siècle, Paris 1999).
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