“Homer praised through oratory becomes the hallmark of Hellenism, an indispensable part of the encyclic paideia which rhetoric was seeking to appropriate.”

“Similarly, he discusses two papal encyclicals that express views of marriage different from those that had prevailed earlier.”

“For the next hundred years, scholars, theologians, and students will be pouring over the papal encyclicals that have come out of the Vatican.”

“The Pope issued 13 encyclicals, including three on socio-economic questions, and wrote several best-selling books.”