The Archive · 1941

Church Hierarchy

The Holy Father. it was believed, will draft plans. together with the Cardinals, for creation of a church hierarchy in Japan, formed exclu-very by Japanese bishops Other reliable sources here yes!

said the Pope would issue an important encyclical on May 15. on the occasion of the fiftieth anniver: ary of the famous "Rerum Novarium"

gelical of Pope Leo XIII

The people will refer to social and economic problems as related to the war and the encyclical will contain His Holiness' advice to the church Hierarchy.

Ecclesiastical circles "recalled that on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of Pope Leo's encyclical in 1931 Pope Pius XI issued an encyclical on reconstruction of the social order in accordance with precepts of the gospel—United Press Drastic American Action Advocated

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