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World Crisis and Leo XIII: The 1878 Encyclical That Predicted Our Collapse

We are living through an "omni-crisis, political, economic, spiritual, moral, and social disorder on every front. Pope Leo XIII diagnosed the roots of this crisis nearly 150 years ago in his 1878 encyclical Inscrutabili Dei Consilio, and the Church possesses both the spiritual and practical remedies.

World Crisis and Leo XIII: The 1878 Encyclical That Predicted Our Collapse

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We are living through an "omni-crisis, political, economic, spiritual, moral, and social disorder on every front.

Pope Leo XIII diagnosed the roots of this crisis nearly 150 years ago in his 1878 encyclical Inscrutabili Dei Consilio, and the Church possesses both the spiritual and practical remedies.

Leo XIII described social disorder with striking precision: contempt for authority and law, civil conflict, materialism, forgetfulness of eternal things, misuse of public money, and political leaders who...

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We are living through an "omni-crisis, political, economic, spiritual, moral, and social disorder on every front. Pope Leo XIII diagnosed the roots of this crisis nearly 150 years ago in his 1878 encyclical Inscrutabili Dei Consilio, and the Church possesses both the spiritual and practical remedies. Frank Wright argues Catholics should not despair.

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Frank Wright argues Catholics should not despair. Leo XIII described social disorder with striking precision: contempt for authority and law, civil conflict, materialism, forgetfulness of eternal things, misuse of public money, and political leaders who present themselves as champions of freedom while leading society toward ruin.

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