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26 Feb Lenten Fasting and Almsgiving – Leo the Great

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...are unequal in their capacity to give can be equal in the love within their hearts. Leo, one of the Early Church Fathers, was such an extraordinary teacher that he...

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09 Feb Orientalium Dignitas-Pope Leo XIII on the Eastern Churches

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...at Plovdiv and Edirne for those of the Bulgarian rite. We have decreed the construction of the Leonianum in Athens. We have fostered in larger measure the Seminary of St....

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09 Feb AETERNA DEI SAPIENTIA

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...of St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Cyril of Alexandria. St. Augustine, as we know, in defending the Faith against the Pelagians, insisted on the absolute necessity of divine grace...

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05 Feb Centenary of Catholic Social Teaching-John Paul II Centesimus Annus

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...had reduced great multitudes of people. Today, in many parts of the world, similar processes of economic, social and political transformation are creating the same evils. If Pope Leo XIII...

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05 Feb Faith and Reason-Pope John Paul II Fides et Ratio

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...is confirmed by the experience of great Christian theologians who also distinguished themselves as great philosophers, bequeathing to us writings of such high speculative value as to warrant comparison with...

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09 Feb Casti Connubii– Pius XI on Marriage

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...whom We commemorated recently in Our Encyclical Ad salutem on the occasion of the fifteenth centenary of his death:[9] “These,” says St. Augustine, “are all the blessings of matrimony on...

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09 Feb Ecclesiam Suam-Pope Paul VI on the Church

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...are accountable for so great a benefit and also before the Church, in which we must instill the firm desire and resolution to guard the “deposit” about which St. Paul...

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05 Feb Ecclesia de Eucharistia–John Paul II on the Eucharist

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...struck by the simplicity and the “solemnity” with which Jesus, on the evening of the Last Supper, instituted this great sacrament. There is an episode which in some way serves...

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05 Feb Lord and Giver of Life (1986) John Paul II on the Holy Spirit

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...“present” in our difficult age. In the light of this conviction one grasps more clearly the great importance of all the initiatives aimed at implementing the Second Vatican Council, its...

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05 Feb Splendor of Truth-John Paul II Veritatis Splendor

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...made reference to the Thomistic doctrine of natural law, including it in her own teaching on morality. Thus my Venerable Predecessor Leo XIII emphasized the essential subordination of reason and...

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