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Looking back on Rerum Novarum
Monday, May 26, 2025
Matthew Neugebauer
Pope Leo XIV chose his name primarily to highlight his most recent namesake Leo XIII, whose "historic encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question" to the challenges of his time. What concerns does the encyclical address? How does it speak to its time? And what has been its legacy 134 years later?
Leo XIII: A pope for our time
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Benjamin Boivin
Pope Leo XIII, regularly understood to be the founder of Catholic social teaching, can be described as the first modern pope.
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