Roger-François-Marie Aubert
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Emeritus Professor of Church History, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Author of Le Pontificat de Pie IX and others.
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Leo XIII was the pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, from 1878 to 1903. He brought a new spirit to the papacy, expressed in more conciliatory positions toward civil governments, by less opposition to scientific progress, and by an awareness of the pastoral and social needs of the times.…
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