Leo XIII
- Pontificatus
- 1878–1903
- Ordo
- Pontifex 256
- Locus
- Rome
Scripta
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On Christian democracy and Catholic social action among the people.
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On Jesus Christ the Redeemer as the center of history at the Holy Year.
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Consecrates the human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the turn of the century.
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On the Holy Spirit and devotion to the Third Person of the Trinity.
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On the unity of the Church founded by Christ upon Peter and the Apostles.
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On the study of Holy Scripture; opens a new era of Catholic biblical scholarship.
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Foundational social encyclical on capital, labor, the family, and the just wage.
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On the duties of Christians as citizens in the modern state.
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On true human liberty ordered to truth and the moral law.
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On the Christian constitution of states and the Church’s relation to civil society.
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Condemns Freemasonry and secret societies opposed to the Church’s teaching.
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On the origin of civil power and the duty of rulers and subjects under God.
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On Christian marriage as a sacrament instituted by Christ and guarded by the Church.
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Restores and recommends the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas for the Church’s schools.