SACRED AND INVIOLABLE": RERUM NOVARUM AND NATURAL RIGHTS ERNEST L. FORTIN: But while it reinforced Rerum novarwris defense of workers by stressing their "sacred rights" {iura sacra; no. 28),38 it did not alter its basic position on private property. On the contrary, it enshrined it by repeating Leo's statement to the effect that the division of property is a "sacred right"; it adopted Leo's sharp distinction between "ownership" and "use"; and, like Leo, it transferred "use" from the sphere of justice and legislation to that of Christian charity.39 It thus left us once again with a juxtaposition rather than a bona fide integration of two originally antithetical views, one that takes its bearings from the notion of duty and the other from the notion of rights.
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