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 Pope Leo XIII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leo XIII worked to encourage understanding between the Church and the modern world, damaged by Pius IX's uncompromising Syllabus of Errors, issued in 1864, that condemned as heresy 80 propositions, many on political topics, at the foundation of scientific, rational, secular society.
Leo approved the foundation of a Catholic university in the United States in 1887, which became The Catholic University of America.
Leo XIII's regnal length was subsequently exceeded by that of Pope John Paul II.
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Gioacchino Pecci was born at Carpineto on March 2, 1810.
Leo found the Church under fire in many countries, and except for Italy, his policy was one of conciliation.
Though Leo XIII died on July 20, 1903, his influence lives on.
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 Pope Leo XIII -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pope Leo XIII, born Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Pecci (March 2, 1810–July 20, 1903), was (The head of the Roman Catholic Church) Pope of the (The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy) Roman Catholic Church from February 20, 1878 until his death.
Leo continued the Papacy's self-imposed (Click link for more info and facts about incarceration in the Vatican) incarceration in the Vatican and continued to insist that Italian (A member of a Catholic church) Catholics should not vote in Italian elections or hold elected office.
Under Leo XIII (A subdivision of a larger religious group) religious orders grew in number and membership, and many new (The territorial jurisdiction of a bishop) dioceses were created.
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Pope Leo XIII was Pope from 1878 to 1903.
Leo was also the first Pope to come out strongly in favour of the French Republic, upsetting many French monarchists but also proving that the Church was not entirely reactionary.
Leo famously awarded a gold medal to a fashionable nineteenth century cocaine-based drink called Vin Mariani, which was also praised and used by among others Queen Victoria and Leo's successor as pope, St.
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 LEO XIII
Leo proposed to substitute true ideas for the erroneous ideas swarming within old Christendom: to the spread of these ideas in all social strata, was due, to a great extent, to social decay and the break between world and Church.
For thirty years, then, as Bishop of Perugia, the future Leo XIII had the opportunity of thinking about the admirable programme of the great medieval pope, who came, moreover, from the same region as himself, since both were from the diocese of Anagni.
If he agrees to recognize that the period of Christian princes is over, Leo XIII sees just in democratic institutions the possibility of opening new spaces for the presence of the Church, whose prestige is spreading as well as her missionary concern, her contribution to international peace, and her religious and cultural influence.
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 Encyclopedia: Pope Leo XIII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci (March 2, 1810–July 20, 1903), was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, having succeeded Blessed Pius IX on February 20, 1878 and reigning until his own death.
In his 1893 encyclical Providentissimus Deus, Leo gave new encouragement to Bible study while warning against rationalist interpretations which deny the inspiration of Scripture: 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Providentissimus Deus, On the Study of Holy Scripture, was an encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII on 18 November 1893.
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 Pope Leo XIII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, born Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Pecci (March 2, 1810–July 20, 1903), was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, having succeeded Blessed Pius IX on February 20, 1878 and reigning until his own death.
Born in, Italy, Pecci first achieved note as the popular and successful Archbishop of Perugia, which led to his appointment as a Cardinal in 1853.
Pope Leo XIII awarded a gold medal [3] (http://www.wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm) to a fashionable 19th century cocaine-based drink called Vin Mariani, the drink that inspired Coca-cola.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Leo XIII
During Pope Leo's pontificate the condition of the Church in Switzerland improved somewhat, especially in the Ficino, in Aargau, and in Basle.
With regard to the Kingdom of Italy, Leo XIII maintained Pius IX's attitude of protest, thus confirming the ideas he had expressed in his pastoral of 1860.
Leo was far from robust in health, but the methodical regularity of his life stood him in good stead.
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 Leo XIII on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Leo's election brought a turn in the course of the papacy ; he was abreast of the times and tried, especially by preaching to the whole church, in encyclical letters, to form Roman Catholic attitudes appropriate to living in the modern world.
Leo's program for society appeared in Rerum novarum (1891), an arraignment of capitalism that also showed the insufficiencies of Marxian socialism; it set up Catholic aims and ideals.
Saint Eudokia and the imperial household of Leo VI.
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Pope Leo XIII was Bishop of Rome from 1878 to 1903.
"The pontificate of Leo XIII marked the beginning of an official effort to restate the traditional social teaching of the Catholic Church in the context of modern industrialism.
But with Leo's reign, the movement 'captured' the papacy in the way that the eleventh century reform had 'captured' Leo IX or the reform of the sixteenth century had Paul III.
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 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Pope Leo XIII's Message to America
Furthermore, although it is almost a half-century since Leo XIII sent this letter to his Delegate in our land, it still conveys a timely and important message to the Catholics of the United States.
The ruling of Pope Leo XIII was substantially identical with the prescription of the Code: "Let Catholics take care not to have debates or conferences, particularly of a public nature, with non-Catholics, without the permission of the Holy See or, if the case is urgent, of the local Ordinary".
Catholics of present-day America can profitably find in the apostolic letter of Leo XIII a reminder of the care they must exercise lest their faith suffer from the spirit of religious indifferentism that is so prevalent in our land today.
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 Apparitions of Mary - Some Recent Papal Visionaries - Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius XII, Pope John Paul II
What Leo XIII apparently saw, as described later by those who talked to him at the time of his vision, was a period of about one hundred years when the power of Satan would reach its zenith.
Leo was so shaken by the spectre of the destruction of moral and spiritual values both inside and outside the Church, that he composed a prayer which was to be said at the end of each Mass celebrated anywhere in the Catholic Church.
Regardless, while the precise details of Leo's visions are not known, it would certainly appear that his concern about the coming difficulties in his Church and the world in which it found itself were well founded.
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 Leo XIII --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pope Gregory XIII made him bishop of Pistoia, Italy, in 1573, archbishop of Florence in 1574, and cardinal in 1583.
Although Leo XIII was no less conservative in his theological inclinations than his predecessor, his positive appreciation of the church's opportunities in modern society gave his pontificate a significantly different cast from that of Pius.
When Leo XIII became pope on Feb. 20, 1878, at the age of 67, his reign was expected to be a brief, transitional one.
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 Leo, XIII Biography / Biography of Leo, XIII Biography Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Leo XIII (1810-1903), who was pope from 1878 to 1903, is known for his social reforms and his recognition of the rights of the worker.
Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci, who became Pope Leo XIII, was born on March 2, 1810, in Carpineto, Italy.
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 Patron Saints Index: Pope Leo XIII
Leo’s election changed the course of the papacy.
He refuted the French royalists' claim that they were exceptional Catholics, and the French anti-Catholics contention that the Church was politically reactionary; overall he supported and vindicated Catholic democrats He opposed the anti-Catholic government of Italy.
Rerum novarum in 1891, Leo explained the sad deficiencies of Marxism and gave an early warning of the misery it would inflict on the world.
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 LEO XIII - Encyclopedia Britannica - LEO XIII - JCSM's Study Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the jubilee year 1825 he was selected by his fellow-students at the Collegium Romanum to head a deputation to Pope Leo XII., whose memory he subsequently cherished and whose name he assumed in 1878.
This last was slightly tinged with modern socialism; it was described as " the social Magna Carta of Catholicism," and it won for Leo the name of " the working-man's pope." Translated into the chief modern languages, many thousands of copies were circulated among the working classes in Catholic countries.
It was the knowledge that in all points of religious faith and practice Leo XIII.
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 Leo XIII, pope. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Ordained in 1837, he earned an excellent reputation as archbishop of Perugia (1846–77), and was created cardinal in 1853.
Leo’s election brought a turn in the course of the papacy; he was abreast of the times and tried, especially by preaching to the whole church, in encyclical letters, to form Roman Catholic attitudes appropriate to living in the modern world.
His influence was increased by the length of his reign; thus he was able to furnish the college of cardinals with an unusual number of excellent men (including John Henry Newman in 1879 and James Gibbons in 1886).
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 Additional Reading (from Leo XIII) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On the various aspects of the work of Leo XIII as pope, see E.T. Gargan (ed.), Leo XIII and the Modern World (1961); and E. Soderini, Il pontificato di Leone XIII, 3 vol.
Leo, Latin for “lion,” is the 12th largest constellation, covering about 950 square degrees.
Alfonso XIII, the last of the line, was the most important.
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 Leo XIII, pope
Leo's election brought a turn in the course of the
Loisy's "mystical faith": Loisy, Leo XIII, and Sabatier on moral education and the Church.(Alfred Loisy, Auguste Sabatier) (Theological Studies)
John Paul II: personal greatness, flawed papacy: asked why his papacy was so successful, Leo XIII said, 'I was never afraid to appoint bishops who disagreed with me.'.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial) (Catholic New Times)
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 Amazon.com: Books: The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo Xiii, 1878-1903: Or a Light in the Heavens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For instance, according to the *Catholic Encyclopedia*, one of the purposes of the encyclical *Au Milieu des Sollicitudes* was «to guard against the dangers of the new style of apologetics founded on Kantism and now known as Modernism.» However, the present text merely deals with relations between Church and state in France.
Readers interested in more systematic (and indexed) treatments of the social doctrine of the Church based on the teachings of Leo XIII might be directed to Rev. E.
Leo XIII's other encyclcals and writings are vital for serious research not only of the 18th century church, but of the development of doctrine in the 20th century as well.
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 AllRefer.com - Leo XIII, pope (Roman Catholic Popes And Antipopes) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Leo XIII, pope (Roman Catholic Popes And Antipopes) - Encyclopedia
Leo XIII, pope, Roman Catholic Popes And Antipopes
Leo XIII 1810–1903, pope (1878–1903), an Italian (b.
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 Papal Encyclicals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
LEO XIII SAINT PIUS X PIUS XI PIUS XII
On the Unity of the Church (Leo XIII, 1896)
That they may be one —Ut unum sint" has been the rallying cry of Churchmen since Vatican II, and the explanation for the promotion of an ecumenical agenda that places "unity" before everything.
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 Leo XIII and the Jubilee Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was on this date, December 22, 1885, that Pope Leo XIII proclaimed an extraordinary jubilee.
The tradition was apparently unbroken until the 19th century, when the Jubilees of 1800, 1850 and 1875 were canceled for political reasons.
But Leo XIII proclaimed his extraordinary jubilee ten years later, in 1885.
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 Pope Leo XIII Commemorative Plate
From the book: "Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) was crowned in 1878.
"Pope Leo is honored by a plate of crystal glass.
His portrait ornaments the center, and the name 'Pope Leo XIII' is incribed below it.
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 The non-existent "encyclical" of Pope Leo XIII, December 25th, 1891   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A one-page anti-Catholic website calling itself "Catholicism Today" prints an extract of what is purported to be an encyclical of Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) and dated 25th December 1891.
In fact, the only encyclicals issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 were
Furthermore, a cursory reading of Pope Leo XIII's encyclicals make it clear to anyone who is interested that this is not the style of his writing.
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 MSN Encarta - Leo XIII
Leo XIII (1810-1903), pope from 1878 to 1903, who wrote the first modern papal statement on social and economic theory, and whose pontificate began...
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 Leo XIII --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
Leo XIII --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
Like his predecessor, Pius IX, he opposed Freemasonry and secular liberalism, but he brought a new spirit to the papacy by adopting a conciliatory attitude toward civil governments and taking a more positive view of scientific progress.
"Leo XIII." Britannica Concise Encyclopedia from Encyclopædia Britannica.
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