Catholic social teaching was central in the formation of the New Deal, as the U.S. bishops' 1919 program for social ...

(Pope John XXIII's encyclical, Grata Recordatio ... The first encyclical (1883) prescribed the public recitation of the rosary and the Litany of Loreto in Catholic churches and chapels as a special ...

COMMENTARY: Approved on the same day as ‘Lumen Gentium’ and ‘Unitatis Redintegratio,’ ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ manifests the ...

Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II ...

Catholics are called to walk compassionately with couples experiencing the heartache of infertility, and to help them access ...

56 of Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), an encyclical letter on various threats to human life which Pope John Paul II ... in the new Catechism of the Catholic Church remains valid: 'If ...