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Leo XIII

noun

  1. Giovanni Vincenzo Pecci, 1810–1903, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1878–1903.


Leo XIII

noun

  1. Leo XIII18101903MItalianRELIGION: pope original name Gioacchino Pecci. 1810–1903, pope (1878–1903). His many important encyclicals include Rerum novarum (1891) on the need for Roman Catholics to take action on various social problems
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He will become the first Pope since Leo XIII, who died in 1903, to be buried outside the Vatican.

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The speaker went on, quoting from Karl Marx about "masters and workmen" and the "spirit of revolutionary change" before clearing his throat to deliver another correction: Apologies, that was actually Pope Leo XIII.

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Wallace’s book was the first work of fiction to be blessed by a Pope, Leo XIII, and Wallace decided that for religious reasons no one should adapt it.

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Sanders noted that the Roman Catholic Church's first encyclical on social justice, written in 1891 by Pope Leo XIII, lamented the enormous gap between the rich and the poor.

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Many of the issues Francis talks about were first articulated in 1891 by Pope Leo XIII, who issued an encyclical on the right of workers to join associations.

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