Thanks to Pope Gregory XIII, Mardi Gras became a holiday and was added to the ... Throws will be different for every Krewe and can range from beads to stuffed animals to edible items. Plastic coins ...

“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 Revolutio ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has occasionally weighed in on issues of faith and politics — including reposts of items taking ... Pope Leo XIII, who advocated for the rights of ...

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni confirmed that choice of the name Leo was a reference to Leo XIII ... of the pope who had elevated them to cardinal. John was the most popular, chosen by 23 popes, ...

Doyle also pointed to the last pope to use the name Leo, Pope Leo XIII, who was the head of the Catholic Church between 1878 and 1903. "He is perhaps most famous for writing the Rerum Novarum ...

For many centuries, new popes tended to choose the name of the pope who had elevated them to cardinal. John was the most popular, chosen by 23 popes, followed by Benedict and Gregory, each with 16.