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For nearly 2,000 years the bishops of Rome have addressed theological topics of especially timely concern through the circulation of papal letters. These letters became known as encyclicals, and since the later eighteenth century have become increasingly important in the popes’ exercise of their teaching office. In the mid-nineteenth century, the encyclical letter began to take on its...

47. Our Lord Jesus Christ did not hesitate to confide the formidable task of evangelizing the then-known world to a handful of men to all appearances lacking in number and quality. He bade this little flock not to lose heart,91 for, thanks to His constant assistance,92 through Him and with Him, they would overcome the world.93 Jesus has also taught us that the kingdom of God has an intrinsic and unobservable dynamism which enables it to grow “without [man’s] knowing it.”94 The harvest of God’s kingdom
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