Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Does the Roman Catholic Church ever tolerate other religions? '. . . Pope Leo XIII explained this point tersely when . . . he wrote: "The Church indeed deems it unlawful to place the various forms of divine worship on the same footing . . . but does not on that account condemn those rulers who, for the sake of securing some great good or of hindering some great evil patiently allow custom or usage to be a kind of sanction for each form of religion having its place in the state...
Salazar began immediately to construct his Estado Novo. He announced that the New State would be based on two great calls for social reform-the Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII and the Quadragesima Anno of Pius XI (see RELIGION). But however lofty may have been his inspiration, Salazar's execution was on a quite different pattern, one already known and hated as Fascism: free thought was abolished, the individual became subordinated to the state, the human bill of rights was suppressed and the secret police became the main arm of government. Soon little boys, well-shod and sporting...
...does the Roman Catholic Church stand on labor unions? Aging, white-haired Pope Leo XIII gave the answer in 1891 in his encyclical, Rerum Novarum...
...breeze stayed fresh all the first day & night, the seas quiet. Nobody got sick. Most skippers, leery of the Gulf Stream's northeastward drift, worked up to windward (but the stream carried one boat 210 miles off course). First into the stream was the 54-ft. ketch Malabar XIII, skippered and designed by white-haired John G. Alden. The flat weather gave light-air boats all the breaks; schooners do their best in heavy weather with strong beam and following winds...
Good Works. On March 31, 1889, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, a tiny, frail nun, daughter of a Lombard farmer, arrived in New York with six' members of the order she had formed, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pope Leo XIII had sent her to work among the Italian immigrants who were finding neither a welcome nor prosperity in the New World, and worse, in the eyes of the Church, were losing their faith and piety...