COMMENTARY: A pope named Leo, a world in flux, and a Church seeking direction — the landmark 1891 social encyclical rises to ...

Does Pope Leo XIV subscribe to the tenets of the economic agenda of patriotic populism? Well, it seems so, as he officially ...

But the new pope, in 2025, has done something more than mark an anniversary. By choosing the name “Leo” and explicitly ...

The election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the pope has given Catholics and non-Catholics alike reason to celebrate. The anticipation of the conclave was felt throughout the world, and ...

Pontiff from 1878 to 1903, Leo XIII authored the encyclical “Rerum Novarum,” the ur-text of Catholic social teaching. The new pope’s name, accordingly, is a “direct recall of the social ...

In 1891, the Rerum Novarum by Leo XIII was primarily two things. First, it was the Church's recognition that the political issue, posed in a totalitarian form by the French Revolution, could ...

By taking the name Leo, I believe the new pope is suggesting something similar. The important question is not whether new ...

From Leo XIII to Leo XIV, from Rerum Novarum to Rerum Digitalium. Imaginative for now, but possible. Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, was clear: the choice of the name Leo ...

There has been much speculation as to why the new Pope chose the name Leo. The last Pope Leo (XIII) was the first Pope to ...

The first US pontiff in the Catholic Church's history has spoken about his namesake Pope Leo XIII's social policies, economics, and theological doctrines, which opened the Church to modernity in the ...

Leo XIII is remembered as a pope of Catholic social teaching. He wrote a famous open letter to all Catholics in 1891, called “Rerum Novarum” (“Of Revolutionary Change”). The pamphlet ...

(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) More than a century ago, Pope Leo XIII issued Rerum Novarum, the Church’s groundbreaking endorsement of workers’ rights. With global inequality surging and ...