Pope Leo XIII beatified sixty-four Vietnamese Martyrs. The Vietnamese Martyrs, including 53 additional individuals later beatified, were canonized on June 19, 1988.
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Pope Leo XIII beatified sixty-four Vietnamese Martyrs. The Vietnamese Martyrs, including 53 additional individuals later beatified, were canonized on June 19, 1988.
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I chose to take the name Leo XIV. 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 revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour.
In the light of the new Pope taking the name Leo XIV, let's revisit a major writing of Pope Leo XIII
As I'd predicted, the new Pope, Pope Leo XIV, was a cardinal that wasn't in the pundit list.
Vatican watchers said Prevost’s decision to name himself Leo was significant given the previous Leo’s legacy of social justice and reform, suggesting continuity with some of Francis’ chief concerns.
Not just the AP, I said this yesterday, and in spades. In fact, as a Distributist, Pope Leo XIII is one of my absolute favorite recent Popes. He was an ardent opponent of communism and capitalism.