This resource offers educators a practical and engaging way to help students understand and connect with Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, a foundational document in Catholic Social Teaching. Recognizing that encyclicals can often feel dense, abstract, and inaccessible to students, it provides step-by-step exercises that move beyond mere reading toward meaningful engagement.

The material is organized into three stages—understanding, praying, and applying—so that learners can grasp the historical and theological context, reflect spiritually, and translate the encyclical’s teachings into real-world action. By blending condensed summaries, inference activities, and problem-solving exercises, this resource equips teachers to make Catholic Social Teaching both intellectually clear and personally relevant for their students.