Word: dogmatist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the revolutionized industrial world and saw that all was not going to be peaceful. To 81-year-old Gioacchino Vincenzo Pecci, His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, who had been Civil Governor of Benevento and Governor of Perugia and far more a man-of-the-world than his dogmatist predecessor Pius IX, it seemed a good moment for Mother Church to say her say about social and industrial reform.' So he composed and issued a great encyclical entitled Rerum Novarum ("Concerning New Things"). Firmly rejecting the new Socialism and its "community of goods" as "directly contrary to the natural...
...brilliant. Because he reorganized the Ambrosian Library in Milan and made it really useful to scholars, his friend King Vittorio Emanuele made him a Knight of the Outer of Saints Maurice & Lazarus.† His Significance. In the long list of Popes, Pius IX (1846-78) ranked as a great dogmatist. Far more important than the loss of the Papal States were his dogmas of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and of Papal Infallibility. Leo XIII (1878-1903) was "worldly," a brilliant diplomat. Pius X (1903-14) was not much interested in world politics. He was "spiritual." Benedict...
Death came to Author Jesse Lynch Williams last September. He left this book, a quietly satirical study of religious dogmatism. Greatly daring, Author Williams has made his dogmatist-villain a woman, and a beauty...