So the Vicar can say with equanimity, with no doubt, in an encyclical letter sent last week to all patriarchs, primates, archbishops and bishops for the instruction of their flocks: “The heads ...

Pope Francis has appointed a supporter of allowing pro-abortion Catholic politicians to receive communion to lead the Roman ...

Kennedy in southern California. It was also the year in which Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical letter on transmitting human life, Humanae Vitae (HV). He met immediate, premeditated, and ...

The death of the author of such classics of literary criticism as Working With Structuralism and The Modes Of Modern Writing ...

Notes 1. Pius XI, Encyclical Letter Casti connubii (30 December 1930), in Acta Apostolicae Sedis 22 (1930), pp. 559-561. 2 See especially n. 29, where the Pope quotes in inverted commas ...

The seminal document of Catholic social teaching is Rerum Novarum, an encyclical letter written by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 that addressed the roles and responsibilities of politicians, workers ...

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When we are tempted to lose hope, we must remember that it is not a feeling or an emotion but a virtue, says the bishop of ...

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The recent encyclical Dilexit Nos (DN) [1] from Pope Francis is unique of its kind, at least within his term of office. It deals with deeply spiritual issues, using spiritual terms. One can judge them ...

VATICAN— Here’s the full text of Pope Francis’ message for the 58th World Day of Peace, on the theme “Forgive us our ...