The encyclical letter also encouraged the entire Roman Catholic episcopate to promote the First Friday Devotions, established June as the Month of the Sacred Heart, and included the Prayer of Consecration to the Sacred Heart.
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Pope Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King in his encyclical letter " Quas primas " of 1925, in response to growing secularism and in the context of the unresolved Roman Question.
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Following are excerpts from Pope John Paul II's encyclical letter " Evangelium Vitae " ( " Gospel of Life " ), which was issued in English and seven other languages Thursday:
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The church has never formally condemned the theory of evolution, but its strongest statement of concern came in the encyclical letter " Humani Generis, " which was issued by Pope Pius XII in 1950.
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The archbishop opened the conference with an address : deliberation followed; committees were appointed to report on special questions; resolutions were adopted, and an encyclical letter was addressed to the faithful of the Anglican Communion.
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The Greek encyclical letter of Lucian was translated into Latin by Avitus and sent to Braga with another for the bishop, Balconius, his clergy, and people, together with a relic of St . Stephen.
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On December 23, both Dacius and the Pope escaped again and took refuge in the Church of St . Euphemia in Chalcedon, from which Pope Virgilius issued an Encyclical letter describing the treatment he had received.
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Hoping to climb on the mammoth wave of book sales following Pope John Paul II around these days, Times Books is publishing an instant book on the pope's new Encyclical Letter on moral conduct this week.
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In an encyclical letter that is being released Tuesday in Rome, the pontiff acknowledged that the papacy sometimes " constitutes a difficulty for most other Christians, whose memory is marked by certain painful recollections ."
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St . Athanasius, in his encyclical letter to the bishops of Egypt and Libya, places the name of Macarius ( who had been long dead at that time ) among those of bishops renowned for their orthodoxy.
