Pope Leo XIII in his historic encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice, and labour.I’ll spend more time reflecting on the potential importance of Rerum Novarum for these 21st-century challenges in a future article. Stay tuned to our blog, and visit slmedia.org/pope-leo-xiv for our latest coverage of this fourteenth Leonine papacy.