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By Austin Cline, About.com Guide to Atheism since 1998

This Date in History: Catholicism & Human Rights

Tuesday April 20, 2004
April 20, 1884: Pope Leo XIII, in his encyclical Humanum genus, rejected the idea that humans have equal rights and should be sovereign.

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