Word: anno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the 30 encyclicals which Pius XI gave to the world, one of the greatest was Quadragesima Anno, in which he upheld the rights of labor and set forth an ideal Catholic program condemning equally the extremes of unrestrained Capitalism and Communism. Nowhere did the Church attempt to translate this encyclical into political action. And everywhere Pius XI maintained a traditional policy of dealing politically with the States of the world-negotiating concordats wherever possible -upon any terms which recognized the validity of the Church's mission on earth. That policy led the Church into some dilemmas, could very...
Long ago, when a hunchbacked Jewish philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86), grandfather of Composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, introduced German culture to Berlin's ghettos the Enlightened Jews objected. For "Before Christ" they insisted on substituting "Before the Common Era," for "Anno Domini" the "Common Era." At the spectacle of the Aryans following Jewish example nearly 200 years later, Jewish rabbis chuckled in their beards...
Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Facie bat Anno...
...volume is a Latin Bible, octave in size, bound in black, and was printed in London in 1580. On its flyleaf is the inscription: "John Wilson gave this Bible to the Library of Harvard college in New England, anno...
Bishop Schrembs: "Father Coughlin is really fighting for the preservation of American democracy, which I am sure will successfully withstand European surges toward Communism and toward Fascism. . . . Father Coughlin's stand on money is in accordance with the Pope's encyclical Quadragesimo Anno. If you read that you will find it more radical than Father Coughlin himself...