One of the most well-known documents produced by the Church in the contemporary era is Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, published in 1891. Civil tensions and demands, and emerging market structures, did not allow papal sensibilities to ignore these impulses within what appeared to be a new social order. Therefore, the production of this document sought to construct a vision of both a cultural and economic order that could be expressed in the light of faith. This document thus marked a first and innovative social doctrine of the Church, attentive to the ennoblement of man, his individuality, and