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Pope from 1878 to 1903, Leo XIII founded Catholic social teaching with the encyclical Rerum Novarum, defending a just wage, workers' associations and private property against socialism and liberalism, and revived Thomism.
Political topics
Pope Leo XIII leans further toward religious than 95% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where Pope Leo XIII stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, Pope Leo XIII sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 263 ideologies
Social doctrine of the Catholic Church, combining traditionalist morality and defense of life with concern for social justice, subsidiarity and worker dignity, under the hierarchical authority of the papacy and canon law.
Current advocating a monarch who actually governs, as constitutional head of the executive or absolute sovereign, over a federation of states or regions with broad self-government, as in the German Empire of 1871, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia.
Current that grounds politics in Christian morality and tradition, defending family, life, and religious values within democracy, with emphasis on preserving the people's customs and cultural heritage.
The most distant ideology
Techno-AnarchismAnarchist28%
A Dominican friar and the foremost systematizer of medieval scholasticism, Thomas Aquinas fused Aristotelian philosophy with Christian theology in the Summa Theologica, arguing for natural law as the basis of moral and political order, the authority of the Church and the Christian monarch, and hierarchy as the earthly reflection of divine order.
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