Union of Fribourg

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The Fribourg Union was made up of lay intellectuals that met each October from 1885 to 1891 to study contemporary problems which had emerged with the divisions of classes, the emergence of the industrial worker class, and the other social problems emerging in the era of industrialization. Because of this work, the Fribourg Union was charged with the task to be a "think-tank" in helping Pope Leo XIII to draft the historic foundational document of modern Catholic Social Teaching, Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XII.

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