By Peter Kwasniewski, LifeSiteNews - In my last article, I looked at a number of Pope Leo XIII’s masterful social encyclicals, which he issued in order to offer guidance to the Church in her delicate and difficult dealings with modern nation-states and modern economic situations… He was among the first to size up the full magnitude of the change that was taking place as the Western world threw off the Redeemer’s sweet yoke to run after fashionable -isms like liberalism, materialism, and consumerism, which promised ever expanding freedom while achieving little more than the gradual destruction of the natural and supernatural institutions…