In his latest encyclical, Pope Benedict XVI called for creating a “true world political authority” with “real teeth” that would have the power to redistribute wealth and energy ...

The Holy Father has shared his views on sustainability and environmental protection well known via his second encyclical, titled "Laudato Si.” “With the new Popemobile, Pope Francis is the ...

Pope Francis has called for his encyclical on the environment to be received with an “open spirit”, saying the unprecedented ecological statement should be seen as an appeal for responsibility ...

While the vast majority of U.S. Catholics support capital punishment, Pope John Paul II has declared the Church's near total opposition to the death penalty. In his encyclical "Evangelium Vitae ...

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 ...

With the easy credulity that has become so typical of journalists during his pontificate, many observers, both Catholic and secular, expected Pope ... si', the 2015 papal encyclical in which ...

Perhaps the head of the Catholic Church, who condemned “the increasing use and power of air-conditioning” last week in a market-bashing encyclical ... equipment to the Vatican’s most ...