Leo XIII is known as the social justice pope because of encyclical, Rerum Novarum. This “Magna Carta of Social Justice” was ...

As white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 6:08 p.m. May 8 in Vatican City, University of Iowa Catholic Studies ...

From saints and scholars to fearless reformers, these popes didn’t just shape Church history — they shaped my life of faith.

News that the global Catholic Church would get its first U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholic students at Princeton and ...