Effectively stealing some thunder from his own forthcoming encyclical on social themes, Pope Benedict XVI insisted last week that underneath the current global economic crisis lurks greed, rooted in ...

VATICAN CITY --A draft copy of Pope Francis' eagerly awaited encyclical on the environment calls for urgent action to protect the Earth and fight global warming, which the pope says is "mostly" due to ...

VATICAN CITY-- Anxiety has so gripped American conservatives over Pope Francis' upcoming encyclical on the environment that you might think a pope had never before blamed fossil fuels for global ...

Taken from St. Francis of Assisi’s “Canticle of the Sun” prayer praising God for creation, the likely name of the Pope’s upcoming encyclical was informally announced just weeks before its anticipated ...

Pope Francis will publish the fourth encyclical of his pontificate on Thursday on “the human and divine love of the heart of Jesus Christ.” The encyclical, titled Dilexit Nos, meaning “he has loved us ...

In the wake of WWI, Pope Pius XI reminded his readers that governments instituted by men can never be perfect, and they ...

(RNS) When Al Smith ran for president in 1928, his status as the first Catholic to head a major party ticket was challenged on the basis that he would have to follow papal encyclicals, not the U.S.

Pope Francis’s highly anticipated encyclical—Laudato Si’—is now out. Here are 13 things to know and share . . . 1) What are the basic facts about this encyclical? An encyclical is a teaching document ...