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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Encyclical
Britannica 11thENCYCLICAL (from Late Lat. encyclicus, for encyclius — Gr. tyxiwXuK, from »r and KiwXos, " a circle "), an ecclesiastical epistle intended for general circulation, now almost exclusively used of such letters issued by the pope. The forms encyclim and encyclic ...
Vol. 9, pp. 369-369
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Anti-Semitism
Britannica 11th... s in the Reichsrath. The elections were followed (26th January 1901} by a papal encyclical on Christian democracy, in which Christian Socialism was declared to be a term unacceptable to the Church, and the faithful were adjured to abstain from agitation of a d ...
Vol. 2, pp. 134-146
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Aquinas
Britannica 11th... Western Church, a fact which was strongly emphasized by Leo XIII. (q.v.) in his Encyclical of August 4, 1879, which directed the clergy to take the teachings of Aquinas as the basis of their theological position. In 1880 he was declared patron of all Roman Cat ...
Vol. 2, pp. 250-252
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