Crossword-Solution: ENCYCLICAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Encyclical | a. | Sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope. |
| Encyclical | n. | An encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “ENCYCLICAL”
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| LETTER intended for extensive circulation | 1 answer |
| Pope's letter to the clergy. | 1 answer |
| a letter from the pope sent to all Roman Catholic bishops throughout the world | 1 answer |
| intended for wide distribution | 1 answer |
| Papal letter | 3 answers |
| Edict | 71 answers |
| Letter | 75 answers |
| circulation | 76 answers |
| publication | 80 answers |
| Bull | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ENCYCLICAL (5)
Like the casuistry of Boscovich in using the Copernican theory for "convenience in argument," while acquiescing in its condemnation by the Church authorities, this encyclical of Pope Benedict broke the spell.
The matter was evidently thought serious in the higher regions of the Church, for in November, 1893, appeared an encyclical letter by the reigning Pope, Leo XIII, on The Study of Sacred Scripture.
Peter over the troubled waves of the nineteenth century, he so far abstained from condemning any of the greater results of modern critical study that the main English defender of the encyclical, the Jesuit Father Clarke, did not hesitate publicly to admit a multitude of such results--results, indeed, which would shock not only Italian and Spanish Catholics, but many English and American Protestants.
Mark's Gospel is spurious; and, as regards the whole encyclical, the distinguished Jesuit dwelt significantly on the power of the papacy at any time to define out of existence any previous decisions which may be found inconvenient.
You find them in both Protestant and Catholic manuals, best of all in the innumerable text‐books published since Pope Leo’s Encyclical recommending the study of Saint Thomas.
Quotes with ENCYCLICAL (3)
Faith, hope and charity go together. Hope is practised through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness. Faith tells us that God has given his Son for our sakes and gives us the victorious certainty that it is really true: God is love! It thus transforms our impatience and our doubts into the sure hope that God holds the worl…
When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1959–2016).