But as a faithful Catholic, he obeyed the modernising encyclical of 1892, Rerum Novarum, and declared his readiness to rally to a Republican government, provided that it respected religion.
He openly criticized certain papal periodicals and encyclicals, including Rerum Novarum (Leo XIII), Quadragesimo Anno (Pius XI), and Divini Redemptoris (Pius XI).
George Price completed his education at St. John's College High School While there he was exposed to the teachings of Catholic social justice, in particular the encyclical Rerum Novarum.
During the years 1947 and 1948, he served as legal advisor to the Costa Rican Confederation of Workers of Rerum Novarum.
Many of his thoughts found entrance into the 1891 Rerum Novarum encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII.
In 1891, Pope Leo XIII called for the Church to adopt a more open involvement in social issues in his encyclical Rerum Novarum.
His social encyclical, Quadragesimo Anno {Forty Years After), continuing the ground-breaking social policies of Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum, demanded the end of social inequalities while providing bases for fair working conditions and a just living wage for employees.
He took as the basis for his Catholicism bot the works of Thomas Aquinas and the Papal encyclicals Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno, contrasting them with his twin political hates of liberalism and communism.
Influenced by the German Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler, in 1891 Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical Rerum Novarum, which set in context Catholic social teaching in terms that rejected socialism but advocated the regulation of working conditions.