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The Papal Encyclicals: 1903–1939 is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

when he said: “Husbands, love your wives as Christ also loved the Church,”24 that Church which of a truth He embraced with a boundless love not for the sake of His own advantage, but seeking only the good of His Spouse.25 The love, then, of which We are speaking is not that based on the passing lust of the moment nor does it consist in pleasing words only, but in the deep attachment of the heart which is expressed in action, since love is proved by deeds.26 This outward expression of love in the
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