Pope Leo XIV – Inaugural Mass Homily
Elected on May 8, 2025, as the 267th successor of St. Peter, Pope Leo XIV’...
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21 May Pope Leo XIV – First Homily
...of Rome and, according to the well-known expression of St. Ignatius of Antioch, am called to preside in charity over the universal church (cf. Letter to the Romans, Prologue). St....
09 Feb Orientalium Dignitas-Pope Leo XIII on the Eastern Churches
...at Plovdiv and Edirne for those of the Bulgarian rite. We have decreed the construction of the Leonianum in Athens. We have fostered in larger measure the Seminary of St....07 Dec St. Gregory the Great
09 Feb AETERNA DEI SAPIENTIA
...of St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Cyril of Alexandria. St. Augustine, as we know, in defending the Faith against the Pelagians, insisted on the absolute necessity of divine grace...
05 Feb Centenary of Catholic Social Teaching-John Paul II Centesimus Annus
...had reduced great multitudes of people. Today, in many parts of the world, similar processes of economic, social and political transformation are creating the same evils. If Pope Leo XIII...
09 Feb Casti Connubii– Pius XI on Marriage
...whom We commemorated recently in Our Encyclical Ad salutem on the occasion of the fifteenth centenary of his death:[9] “These,” says St. Augustine, “are all the blessings of matrimony on...08 Feb Divino Afflante Spiritu–Pope Pius XII on Biblical Studies
...the school for biblical studies, founded at St. Stephen’s, Jerusalem, by the Master General of the Sacred Order of Preachers–from which, to use his own words, “biblical science itself had...
31 Aug Is the Filioque a Church-Dividing Issue?
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...St. Peter’s Basilica. On both occasions the Pope and Patriarch proclaimed the Creed in Greek (i.e., without the Filioque). Pope John Paul II and Romanian Patriarch Teoctist did the same...
