6.19.2015

On the history of fuming

In the Footsteps of Popes Seeking Worldly Change - New York Times

"When an elderly Pope Leo XIII released a document in 1891 on the rights of workers to unionize and of owners to hold private property, European capitalists and socialists alike cried foul. Why should we listen, they fumed, to a pope’s pronouncements on economics and politics?"

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