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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Does Pope Leo XIV subscribe to the tenets of the economic agenda of patriotic populism? Well, it seems so, as he officially revealed his thinking behind his papal name, telling cardinals in Rome that ...

From Leo XIII to Leo XIV, from Rerum Novarum to Rerum Digitalium. Imaginative for now, but possible. Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, was clear: the choice of the name Leo, by the ...