Lee Penn begs to differ. He says that it is wholly consistent with the vision Pope Benedict XVI called for in his 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate, which, as a papal encyclical, is binding on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Activists eagerly awaited Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’, which was supposed to confront climate-change skeptics and build momentum toward a binding global agreement at the ...

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 ...

Meeting with the delegation, the Pope challenged them to help individuals and communities live the Jubilee Year with a spirit ...