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Rome Has Spoken: The Pope Who Fought Capitalism AND Communism | Rerum Novarum – Avoiding Babylon

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In 1891, an 81-year-old man who had spent the last twenty years as aprisoner inside his own city — no army, no kingdom, no power anygovernment was obligated to respect — sat down and wrote a letter thatterrified the most powerful economic movement in human history. Not with a threat. With an argument. On one […]

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Rome Has Spoken: The Most Contested Encyclical in the Modern Church | Pope Leo XIII – Immortale Dei – Avoiding Babylon

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If you have ever prayed the Saint Michael prayer — “Saint Michaelthe Archangel, defend us in battle” — you have prayed words writtenby the pope in this episode. And according to the tradition of the Church, he wrote them becauseof something he heard. On October 13th, 1884, after offering Mass, Pope Leo XIII collapsedat the

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Rome Has Spoken: When the Pope Declared War on Secret Societies | Humanum Genus – Avoiding Babylon

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For 146 years, pope after pope had warned Catholics about a secretsociety. And by 1884, almost nobody was listening. The lodges were full. The lodges were respectable. They countedkings, prime ministers, and generals among their members. The ideathat a charitable gentlemen’s fraternity was actually a spiritual waragainst the Catholic Church sounded like paranoia. So Pope

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Rome Has Spoken: Gregory XVI’s Prophetic Warning Against Liberalism | Mirari Vos – Avoiding Babylon

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The errors the modern world calls “progress,” Pope Gregory XVI called what they were: poison. He said so in writing, in 1832. Almost nobody talks about it. In 1832, Pope Gregory XVI issued Mirari Vos — “On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism” — the first social encyclical in Church history. Written in the violent aftermath of

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Rome Has Spoken: The Once Liberal Pope Who Tried to Warn Us | Quanta Cura & Syllabus of Errors – Avoiding Babylon

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In 1846, the Catholic Church elected the man the world called “the liberal pope.” Eighteen years later, that same man would issue the most uncompromising condemnation of the modern world ever written by a pope. How does that happen? In December of 1864 — on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception — Pope Pius IX

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Rome Has Spoken: The Encyclical That Brought Aquinas Back | Aeterni Patris – Avoiding Babylon

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By 1878, every university in Europe had declared the Catholic faith philosophically obsolete. Kant said you can’t reason your way to God.Hegel said truth evolves with history.Comte said theology was a primitive stage of human thought.Materialism said there was no soul at all. And inside the Catholic seminary, the great Scholastic tradition — the tradition

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