WASHINGTON – The social challenges of Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical letter on social justice and the condition of labor, remain as relevant today as they were 120 years ago, said a ...

WASHINGTON-- The head of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, in an annual Labor Day statement, likened today's workers and the difficulties they face to those who ...

Daniel Henninger doesn’t quite understand subsidiarity: Subsidiarity—an awful but important word—attempts to discover where the limits lie in the demands a state can make on its people. Identifying ...

Earlier this month, former AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney delivered a speech at Catholic University America in celebration of Rerum Novarum, the revolutionary pro-union encyclical issued by Pope ...

There is a temptation, perhaps unique to Catholics in the United States, to read Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor), 130 years old today, through a kind of nostalgic haze. It evokes ...

Pope Leo XIII is depicted in a window at Holy Family Church in Mitchell, S.D. His 1891 encyclical on labor, ''Rerum Novarum,'' marks the start of modern Catholic social teaching. (CNS photo from ...

In a 1902 apostolic letter marking his 25th year in the Petrine ministry, Pope Leo XIII reflects that “the ardent desire of Our heart was not only to enlighten minds, but also to move and purify ...

WASHINGTON (CNS) — At a time when workers continue to struggle for decent wages and rights, panelists at a conference marking the 120th anniversary of the encyclical Rerum Novarum made clear that the ...

In 1891, the Rerum Novarum by Leo XIII was primarily two things. First, it was the Church's recognition that the political issue, posed in a totalitarian form by the French Revolution, could somehow, ...

Leo XIV’s namesake penned an encyclical, Rerum Novarum, that critiques both capitalism and socialism. However unprecedented certain aspects of Robert Prevost’s election to the papacy may be—he is, as ...

When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church on May 8, he chose the name Leo XIV in part, he said a few days later, to honor Leo XIII and his historical ...