{"id":298505,"date":"2026-10-29T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/pope-leo-xiii-on-the-authority-of-the-state\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:27:09","slug":"pope-leo-xiii-on-the-authority-of-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/pope-leo-xiii-on-the-authority-of-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIII on the Authority of the State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Oct 29, 2026<\/p>\n<p>In his 1881 encyclical Diuturnum, Pope Leo XIII reaffirmed the<br \/>\nScriptural teaching that all civil rulers derive their authority<br \/>\nfrom God, not solely from the consent of the governed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Article version <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/pope-leo-xiii-on-authority-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/pope-leo-xiii-on-authority-state\/\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/pope-leo-xiii-on-authority-state\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Diuturnum<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/culture\/library\/view.cfm?recnum=4857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/culture\/library\/view.cfm?recnum=4857\"><br \/>\nwww.catholicculture.org\/culture\/library\/view.cfm?recnum=4857<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Episode on Yves Simon\u2019s <em>A General Theory of Authority<\/em><br \/>\nw\/ Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/episode-56-vindicating-authority-aquinas-guilbeau-op\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/episode-56-vindicating-authority-aquinas-guilbeau-op\/\"><br \/>\nwww.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/episode-56-vindicating-authority-aquinas-guilbeau-op\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Episode on the Christian understanding of authority\/hierarchy<br \/>\nwith Andrew Willard Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/hierarchy-and-woman-aristotle-vs-aquinas-w-andrew-willard-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/hierarchy-and-woman-aristotle-vs-aquinas-w-andrew-willard-jones\/\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/hierarchy-and-woman-aristotle-vs-aquinas-w-andrew-willard-jones\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Alto using discount code CATHOLIC10 <a href=\"https:\/\/Subscribehttps\/\/ascension-press.linkjolt.io\/l\/catholic-culture-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/Subscribehttps:\/\/ascension-press.linkjolt.io\/l\/catholic-culture-podcast\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/ascension-press.linkjolt.io\/l\/catholic-culture-podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/pope-leo-xiii-on-the-authority-of-the-state\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 29, 2026 In his 1881 encyclical Diuturnum, Pope Leo XIII reaffirmed the Scriptural teaching that all civil rulers derive their authority from God, not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}