Au milieu des sollicitudes


Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII
Signature date 16 February 1892
Subject"On the French Third Republic"

Au milieu des sollicitudes is an encyclical published on 16 February 1892 by Pope Leo XIII. In this encyclical, Leo XIII called on the Catholics of France to accept the French Third Republic, a policy later known as the Ralliement.

This encyclical was primarily addressed to the episcopate of France, the clergy, and French Catholics. Its subtitle is: The Church and the State in France.

It builds upon themes developed in the 1884 encyclical Nobilissima Gallorum gens. Its main goal was to encourage all French Catholics to rally to the Republic. The document followed the Toast of Algiers delivered by Cardinal Lavigerie in 1890.

Uniquely, it was written in French rather than the customary Latin.

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