Pope Leo’s first encyclical addresses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ‘magnificent humanity’
Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost on September 14, 1955, in Chicago, Illinois) is the 267th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and the first pope born in the United States. Elected on May 8, 2025, he succeeded Pope Francis and became the first member of the Order of Saint Augustine to ascend to […]
MORTALIUM ANIMOS
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON RELIGIOUS UNITYTO OUR VENERABLE BRETHREN THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES, ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS, AND OTHER LOCAL ORDINARIES IN PEACE AND COMMUNION WITH THE APOSTOLIC SEE. Venerable Brethren, Health, and Apostolic Benediction. Never perhaps in the past have we seen, as we see in these our own times, the minds of men so […]
Heaven in the Catechism of the Catholic Church
§1023 Those who die in God’s grace and friendship and are perfectly purified live forever with Christ. They are like God forever, for they “see him as he is,” face to face: By virtue of our apostolic authority, we define the following: According to the general disposition of God, the souls of all the saints… and […]
Hell in the Catechism of the Catholic Church
CCC §1033—We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbor or against ourselves: “He who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal […]
Ignorance Extinguishes Faith
Yet who can fail to see, Venerable Brethren, that while men are led by reason and liberty, the principal way to restore the empire of God in their souls is religious instruction? How many there are who mimic Christ and abhor the Church and the Gospel more through ignorance than through badness of mind, of […]
Humanae Vitae After Twenty-Five Years: Responses to Some Common Difficulties
PAUL FLAMAN, S.T.D. This paper considers some common difficulties with respect to Humanae Vitae and its teaching regarding family planning, especially with respect to its approval of NFP and its disapproval of all forms of direct contraception. While many have understood and agreed with Pope Paul VI’s Encyclical Humanae Vitae (HV) on birth control published in 1968, [1] many […]
The Ex Cathedra Status of the Encyclical “Humanae Vitae”
Brian W. Harrison, O.S. In “Living Tradition,” No. 12 (July 1987),[1] the present writer favorably reviewed a recent book by Fr. Ermenegildo Lio, O.F.M., Humanae Vitae e Infallibilita (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1986), in which the thesis is sustained that the teaching against contraception in Pope Paul VI’s encyclical letter Humanae Vitae (25 July […]
On Devotion to Saint Joseph
Quamquam Am Pluries Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on August 15, 1889. To Our Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, and other Ordinaries, in Peace and Union with Holy See. Although We have already many times ordered special prayers to be offered up in the whole world, that the interests of Catholicism might be […]