Topic: Pope Leo Xiii
Does the Roman Catholic Church love capitalism or hate it? It was hard to tell this week as the Vatican called for a world central bank and a...
If you only know about nuns through movies and television, then you might think that all nuns wield rulers while singing, dancing and flying. When...
800 years ago Christians were being captured and sold into slavery by the thousands. He dedicated this work to Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. In gratitude for her miraculous assistance, St. John of Matha honored Mary with the title "Our Lady ...
), naturalized British painter who gained international fame for his portraits of eminent men. Among his best known subjects were King Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm II, U.S. Presidents Theodore R. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, King George V, Pope Leo XIII, and Benito ...
Rerum Novarum, encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 and considered by many conservative Roman Catholics to be extremely progressive.
Aspects of the topic Octogesima adveniens are discussed in the following places at Britannica. of Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum novarum on the reform of the social order, Pope Paul issued a forceful apostolic letter, Octogesima adveniens with particular insistence on ...
