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Called Aeterna Dei Sapientia (The Eternal Wisdom of God), from its opening words, the new encyclical commemorates the 15th centenary of Pope St. Leo I, the strong-minded Bishop of Rome from 440 to 461 who dissuaded Attila the Hun from sacking the city in 452, and asserted papal supremacy and discipline over bishops of both Christian East and West. In his new appeal for Christian unity, Pope John avoids mention of Communism by name, but notes that "the Catholic Church finds herself in the same sorrowful position as in the 5th century.'' Because of the threat...
...most important social statement of the Roman Catholic Church in recent centuries has been a document known as Rerum Novarum (Of New Things)* issued on May 15, 1891 by 81-year-old Leo XIII as a papal encyclical-an open letter to the bishops of the church. Dealing directly and forcibly with the social ills facing the world at the turn of the century, it condemned socialism as immoral but supported trade unions and higher wages, state regulation of industry and broader distribution of property and wealth. Brought up to date 40 years later by Pope Pius...
...Papal encyclicals, written in Latin, are titled by their first two words...
...devoting one passage to the information that the monk was sitting in a privy when he reached some of his major intellectual conclusions. In Osborne's portrait, however, these preoccupations are so recurrent that they dominate the texture of the play and become its central image. "Papal decretals are the devil's excretals," cries John Osborne's monk in a burst of rhyme. Throughout the evening, it seems, scarcely two minutes are permitted to go by in which Luther does not resort to some self-dramatizing scatological simile: "I'm like a ripe stool...
...Subsequently he is shown on the day he has significant difficulty saying his first Mass; he wrangles with his father, confers with his friend and guide, Johann von Staupitz, nails up his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, speaks forcefully to Cardinal Cajetan, the papal legate, and so on, until in the end he symbolically holds his young child in his arms and tells him: "Don't be having dreams so soon, my son. They'll be having you soon enough...