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This magnum opus follows upon the previous two Encyclicals of the Ratzinger pontificate: Deus Caritas Est (God is love) and Spe salvi (In hope we were saved).
It is significant that Ryan's interpretation of Rerum is missing from the second of the social encyclicals, Quadragesimo anno (1931), where Pius XI identified a new species of moral virtue and gave it the name social justice.
After Benedict's death in 1758--some 13 encyclicals later--the next five popes used the encyclical letter quite sparingly.
 
 
 
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