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Events on Friday 15 May 1931 1
1931Quadragesimo anno issuedPius XI's encyclical on the social orderPope Pius XI issued the encyclical on the fortieth anniversary of Leo XIII's Rerum novarum. It criticised both unrestrained capitalism and socialism. It set out the principle of subsidiarity as a basis for Catholic social teaching.