{"exhibit":{"title":"Catholics and Social Welfare: The Bishops' Program of Social Reconstruction, 1919","description":"
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the United States experienced economic changes that radically transformed politics and society. In an effort to address the uncertainty caused by these changes, the National Catholic Welfare Council (NCWC) issued the \u201cBishops\u2019 Program of Social Reconstruction,\u201d in 1919. The bishops\u2019 plan offered a guide for overhauling America\u2019s politics, society, and economy based on Pope Leo XIII\u2019s Rerum Novarum and a variety of American influences. This website supplies a range of teaching resources related to these influences, the creation of the plan, as well as the opposition it encountered.<\/p>\n