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For nearly two thousand years, popes have communicated to the world primarily through their letters. In the pre-modern world, the papal chancery turned out tens of thousands of letters a year. On occasion, a letter dealt with broad concerns and was intended to circulate through the churches of a given region. Such letters became known as encyclicals. In the modern period, papal encyclicals have...

they are particularly bound to publicize what is conducive to good and virtuous conduct, not to vice. 13. For we see with deep sorrow what Our predecessor of immortal memory, Leo XIII, lamented: “Lies are boldly insinuated … into weighty tomes and slender volumes, into the transient pages of periodicals and the extravagant advertisements of the theater.”7 We see “books and magazines written to mock virtue and exalt depravity.”8
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