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 ...

ANALYSIS: In recent months, the Pope has returned several times to the themes of social doctrine. In Africa, however, he ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Benedict XVI's new encyclical, "Caritas in Veritate" ("Charity in Truth"), breaks new ground on such topics as microfinancing, intellectual property rights, globalization and the concept of ...

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 ...

(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.