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By the end of the nineteenth century, the Catholic Church had indeed begun to adapt to the modern age by focusing on its spiritual mission, criticizing the abuses of capitalism and calling for social action in the 1891 papal encyclical Rerum Novarum, and encouraging the formation of Catholic socialist parties and Catholic labor unions.

By the End of the Nineteenth Century, the Catholic Church