Visit the homepage for more information. During his years as pope (1878-1903), Leo XIII wrote many significant encyclicals. His 1891 encyclical, On the Condition of Labor, initiated the Church's ...

This commonality of ideals and principles was perhaps articulated most effectively in an encyclical titled "On the Development of Peoples" disseminated by Pope Paul VI in 1967. In the late 1960s, when ...

Dilexit nos is Pope Francis' fourth encyclical, following Lumen fidei (June 29, 2013), co-written with Benedict XVI; Laudato ...

The encyclical, the latest of a series sent out by the 259 popes, is unusually aggressive in the Church’s cause. It exhorts the faithful to “militate courageously under the banners of Christ ...

The pope’s encyclical turns climate change into a moral discussion by focusing on the disproportionate impact of climate change on poor countries and regions. Pope Francis is set to release an ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis issued the fourth encyclical of his papacy on Thursday, denouncing a world that “is losing ...

Before Francis, Pope Paul VI issued his 1966 Populorum Progressio on the challenge of poverty and inequality at the individual and even country levels. The three encyclicals showed papal concern ...