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The term common good has it's roots in an Encyclical (a letter from the Pope to the churches) released by Pope Leo XIII in May 1891 which was titled Rerum Novarum (Latin for: "Of New Things") Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour.

The common good is a concept central to the Catholic social teaching tradition to combat the excesses of both laissez-faire capitalism on the one hand and communismon the other.

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