At one month since his election to the papacy May 8, Pope Leo XIV has so far demonstrated a continuity with his predecessor, ...

The new pope was hearkening back to his predecessor Leo XIII, a pivotal figure who ruled the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903. If Cardinal Prevost had chosen for his name Francis II, or John ...

That same day, the Pope also prayed at the Basilica of St. Mary Major at the tomb of his immediate ... for healing. Pope Leo XIV’s predecessor Leo XIII also had a strong devotion to Mary.

Pope Leo XIV smiles to the audience as he arrives ... to the social challenges presented by the industrial revolution. Leo XIII offered a response to radical economic and political ideologies ...

He selected the papal name Leo as a nod to Pope Leo XIII, who championed the working class, defending workers’ rights and fair wages during his papacy, which ran from 1878 to 1903.

The last pope to take the name Leo was Pope Leo XIII, who lead the Church from 1878 ... s Basilica before moving to the chapel of the Tomb of Saint Peter. There, the new pontiff paused to ...

“There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great Industrial ...