In this series of lectures on Social Reconstruction, we take as our text the Encyclical of Pope Pius XI because it includes a summary of Leo XIIs document on the condition of labour, and prefigures the denunciation of Atheistic Communism. We can hope to descend to details. We can hope only to call attention to the fact that the Catholic Church has a complete social programme; to point out the fundamental principles upon which it is based, and to appeal to the socially inclined at least to read, and if possible, to study this Christian programme drawn from and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.