If Jorge Bergolo is not acquainted with his previous ones, choosing the name of Francisco for his papacy, which was never used by the head of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Robert Aver chose one with a large amount of Solera, with Leon, with more than a dozen precedents. The most direct, Leo XIII, was a cardinal who was born in Rome, whose pontificate developed for another era of great technological transformation, as in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, mainly known to the encyclical of social nature, which concerned the imbalance created by the industrial revolution.
Named Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci, he was born in Karpineto (Italy) in 1810 and died in Rome in 1903. He was elected dad in 1878 and is considered an “encyclical” pontiphon because he published dozens, although Rerum Novarum1891, regarded as the first great social encyclic and analyzed the situation of working classes.
The text began without the main preamble, the purpose of capital and labor obligations, and very criticized the painful living conditions of the poor, oppressed by the “handful of very rich people.” He prescribed that fair wages and the Catholic Basic Trade Union Trade Union are not an employee – but far from the socialist positions that Karl Marx, eight years younger
Leo XIII promoted Catholicism in many European countries; He founded the Academy Santo Thomas de Akino in 1859; He had great skill in managing international relations with other states, and his conciliatory position is explained by the end of Cismas Cismmas and Armenio in 1879, although he did not think with the Anglican people.
