'The Pressing Question of the Hour': Fr. Vincent McNabb O.P. & the Reception of Rerum Novarum. (11th October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: FINN OP, RICHARD
• Is Part Of: New Blackfriars. Volume 102:Number 1101(2021)
• Page Start: 677
• Page End: 693
• Publication Date: 2021-10-11
• Subjects: Vincent McNabb -- Rerum Novarum -- reception history -- Catholic Social -- Guild -- Socialism; Periodicals; Periodicals; 271.2
• DOI: 10.1111/nbfr.12682
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0028-4289

Abstract

Abstract: A study of the British reception history of Rerum Novarum between 1891 and 1919 shows the key role of Fr. Vincent McNabb OP in popularising in the Catholic press what would become the predominant interpretation of the encyclical, switching its perceived emphasis away from the defence of private property to the advocacy of an urgent redistribution of property unjustly withheld from the impoverished working classes