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Jun 21, 20214 min read

June 18 Laudato Si - Caring for our common home

Today in 2015, the ground-breaking encyclical Laudato Si was published. Building on the body of the Church’s social teaching it ...

May 31, 20214 min read

May 31 CELAM 5, Aparecida and Pope Francis

Today we look at the short history of the Latin American Bishops Conference, their most recent meeting in Mexico at Aparecida and how...

May 14, 20216 min read

May 15 The Pope, Workers Rights and Rerum Novarum

Seen by many as the start of Catholic Social teaching - this encyclical of Leo XIII has the unique distinction of being followed by two...

Apr 9, 20214 min read

Apr 9 Encyclicals

Today in 475 the Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus releases an Enkyklikon, a circular letter to the bishops of his empire about the...

Mar 15, 20213 min read

Mar 15 Cardinal Manning & Catholic Social Teaching

Today in 1875, Henry Edward Manning was made a cardinal at a consistory convoked by Pope Pius IX, and unusually for Cardinals in the...

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