“Still, when there is question of defending the rights of individuals, the poor and badly off have a claim to especial consideration. The richer class have many ways of shielding themselves, and stand less in need of help from the State; whereas the mass of the poor have no resources of their own to fall back upon, and must chiefly depend upon the assistance of the State...” (read more - Pope Leo XIII, Rerum novarum, paragraphs 37,38, Encyclical – May 15, 1891)
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