I wonder whether anyone has written a history of Vatican leaks, which seems to be an on-going problem. This story describes the most recent example.
Papal encyclical on climate change highlights rift within Church.
Tag: Encyclicals
The Encyclical: A History and Explanation. Modern Church
This article gives a brief history of papal encyclicals, beginning in 1740. However, the apocryphal book of 2 Maccabees describes such letter writing already in the second century BC.
The papal encyclical: What is an ‘encyclical’?.
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