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3 days ago · In two encyclicals celebrating major anniversaries this year, Leo XIII offers the Holy Rosary as a solution to what’s troubling today’s world. Joseph Pronechen, November 9, 2021 – National Catholic Register. During his 25-year reign (1878-1903), Pope Leo XIII saw major dangers arising in the world. After an alarming vision right after ...
1 day ago · Leo XIII was elected pope in February, 1878, after he had closely monitored the German crisis for seven years. Leo immediately applied his new power to solving the problem, writing to Germany’s Emperor William of his regret at the rupture between Germany and the Vatican. Bismarck responded, to the peace offering:
2 days ago · Following Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 criticism of socialism and communism in Rerum Novarum [Of the new things], Pius XI issued a series of encyclicals starting in May 1928 in “solemn protest against the persecutions unleashed” in Russia, Mexico, and Spain.
4 days ago · On May 25, 1899, Pope Leo XIII promulgated the encyclical Annum Sacrum, which consecrated the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This encyclical was written after a nun, Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart, sent two letters to the pope requesting that he consecrate the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
3 days ago · The previous pope, Leo XIII, composed it and added it to his encyclical, Quamquam Pluries (On Devotion to St. Joseph). He attached the partial indulgence to it and ordered this prayer, Ad Te, Beate Joseph, to be added to the Rosary during the month of October.
2 days ago · As referenced in Pope Pius XII's 1943 the encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi, her fiat gave consent for a spiritual marriage between the Son of God and human nature, thus giving humanity the means to salvation.
2 days ago · Pius XI issued numerous encyclicals, including Quadragesimo anno on the 40th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII 's groundbreaking social encyclical Rerum novarum, highlighting the capitalistic greed of international finance, the dangers of socialism / communism, and social justice issues, and Quas primas, establishing the feast of Christ the King in r...
