Heinrich Pesch House (HPH) is a Catholic academy in Rhine-Neckar, in

Ludwigshafen Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein (; meaning " Ludwig's Port upon Rhine"), is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the river Rhine, opposite Mannheim. With Mannheim, Heidelberg, and the surrounding region, it form ...

, Germany. The

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-run centre offers lectures, seminars, workshops and conferences. The Heinrich Pesch Foundation was founded in 2013 to support the centre and specific programs. A non-profit organization, HPH is supported by the Diocese of Speyer, the Jesuit Order and the Catholic community of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. Heinrich Pesch was a 19th-century Jesuit whose economic theory had a major impact on ''

Rerum Novarum ''Rerum novarum'' (from its incipit, with the direct translation of the Latin meaning "of revolutionary change"), or ''Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor'', is an encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII on 15 May 1891. It is an open letter, pass ...

'', which was the first Catholic social encyclical.Krason, Stephen M
"Principles of Heinrich Pesch's Solidarism,"
''The Catholic Social Science Review'' 14, 2009, pp. 477-483.

Programs

The institute has programs in the fields of "Religion and spirituality", "Ethics in business and society", "Employee representation", "Family education" and Healthcare. It also has a Centre for Ignatian Pedagogy

References

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