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Pope Leo XIII promulgated the encyclical Rerum novarum (“Of New Things”)...
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Industrial Revolution
A map depicting the spread of the Industrial Revolution through Europe in the 19th...
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Pius IX
Pope Pius IX reigned as leader of the Roman Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878 and...
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St. Thomas Aquinas
Painting of scholastic philosopher St. Thomas of Aquinas by Joseph Aubert, 1900.
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Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV was elected to the papacy in May 2025. He chose Leo as his papal name...
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