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II. In his Christmas message of 1942 Pope Pius XII has required: “the dignity of the human person demands the right to use the earth's goods as fundamental natural conditions of life”, but he joined it immediately: “To this the demand corresponds, that virtually everybody must get private property”62 Namely “it ought to be prevented, that the worker would get into such economic dependency, which can not be reconciled with the right of the human person.63 (ibidem)

According to Saint Thomas Aquinas everybody cares much better for the private property, by which public order and social peace can be much more easily maintained.64

Pope Leo XIII explained in the Rerum novarum, that the private property follows from the reasonable nature of man, who has to take care of his future.65 It has been pointed out by the same encyclical, that the work of the worker marks his product, which give title to own it.66

In the explanation of Alexander Horváth because of this work the product gets into causal relationship with the worker, and this is only a predicamental relationship. Therefore the ontological base of the private property is weaker, than the natural right of ius utendi67 mentioned

62 La dignità della persona umana esige dunque come fundamento naturale per vivere il diritto all’uso dei beni della terra; a ciu risponde l’oblogo fondamentale di accordare une proprieta privata, possibilmente a tutti.

Con sempre on the 24 December 1942, AAS 1943 (a. XXXV), page 17

63 ma se vogliono contribuire alia pacificazione della communità, dovranno impedire che l’operaio, che e o sera padre di famiglia, venna condannato ad una dipendenza a sevitu economica, irreconciliabile con i suoi dititti di persona. Con sempre on the just quoted page 17.

64 IIa IIae qu 66. a 2.

65 Homo enigma cum innumerabilia ratione comprehendat, rebusque praesentibus adiungat atque annectat futuras, cumque actionum suarum sit ipse dominus, propterea sub lege aeterna, sub potestate omnia providentissime gubernantis Dei, se ipse gubernat providentia consilii sui: quamobrem in eius est potestate res eligere, quas ad consulendum sibi non modo in praesens, sed etiam in reliquum tempus, maxime iudicet idoneas. Ex quo consequitur, ut in homine esse non modo terrenorum fructuum, sed ipsius terrae dominatum oporteat, quia e terrae fetu sibi res suppeditari videt ad futurum tempus necessarias. Rerum novarum, Acta Leonis, Vol. XI., Roma 1892, page 101.

66 ...in qua velut quamdam personae suae impressum reliquit; ut omnino rectum esse oporteat, eam partem ab eo possideri uti suam, nec ullo modo ius ipsius violare cuiquam licere. Rerum novarum, op.cit. page 103.

67 in IIa IIae qu 66. a 1.