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Pope Leo XIII
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Pope Leo XIII, from the encyclical w: Quamquam pluries (1889)
Pope Leo XIII
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903 (1810–1903)
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He steered the Catholic Church through modern industrial upheaval with a pen instead of territory, writing 86 encyclicals in 25 years — most famously the 1891 letter that claimed workers' rights as a Catholic concern and earned him the nickname "Pope of the Workers."
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Born Gioacchino Pecci in Carpineto Romano in 1810, he rose through church ranks as an intellectual more than a diplomat. Elected pope in 1878, he inherited a Church stripped of the Papal States and facing a world of socialism, capitalism, and industrial misery. His response was Rerum novarum in 1891: a third way that defended unions and fair wages while rejecting both atheistic socialism and laissez-faire extremes, reshaping Catholic social doctrine for a century of successors. He also revived Thomism as the Church's philosophical spine, sponsored the Editio Leonina, and issued eleven encyclic…
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Pope Leo XIII
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Arise then, O invincible Prince, bring help against the attacks of the lost spirits to the people of God, and give them the victory.
— Prayer to Saint Michael (1888)
Pope Leo XIII
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The best parent and guardian of liberty amongst men is truth.
— Encyclical: Immortale Dei (1885)
Pope Leo XIII
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The masonic sect produces fruits that are pernicious and of the bitterest savour.
— §10
Pope Leo XIII
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The sect of the Freemasons shows itself insolent and proud of its success, and seems as if it would put no bounds to its pertinacity.
— §37
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