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

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 ...

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

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

Presidential elections, international environmental conferences, and weather-related disasters are just a few of the major ...

With this encyclical Pope Francis announced that the Catholic Church would - for the first time - intervene in the politics of climate justice. To read Laudato Si' as a document of do-goodery would be ...

Pope Francis's recent encyclical Dilexit Nos (DN) is unique, at least within his term of office. It deals with deeply spiritual issues, using spiritual terms. One can judge them only by the Spirit, ...

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 ...

The negative reaction “shocked” him, he wrote, because he had based the speech on encyclicals, letters from the pope to all his bishops. “I decided that speaking or teaching about issues of ...

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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