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Leo XIII Born
Born in Carpineto Romano, near Rome, he was the sixth of the seven sons of Count Ludovico Pecci and his wife Anna Prosperi Buzzi. -
Benedict XV Born
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Pius XII Born
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli was born on 2 March 1876 in Rome into a family of intense Catholic piety with a history of ties to the papacy (the "Black Nobility"). -
Rerum Novarum
Rerum Noverum was issued in response to the class conflicts that arose in the wake of industrialism capitalism. -
Paul VI Born
Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini was born in the village of Concesio, in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy, in 1897. His father, Giorgio Montini, was a lawyer, journalist, director of the Catholic Action, and member of the Italian Parliament. His mother, Giudetta Alghisi, was from a family of rural nobility. -
Leo XIII Death
Leo XIII was the first pope to be born in the 19th century and was also the first to die in the 20th century: he lived to the age of 93, dying on 20 July 1903, the longest-lived pope ever (as of 2020). At the time of his death, Leo XIII was the second-longest reigning pope, exceeded only by his immediate predecessor, Pius IX. -
John Paul II Birth
Karol Józef Wojtyła was born in the Polish town of Wadowice. He was the youngest of three children born to Karol Wojtyła (1879–1941), an ethnic Pole, and Emilia Kaczorowska (1884–1929), who was of Lithuanian descent. -
Benedict XV Death
Benedict XV celebrated Mass with the nuns at the Domus Sanctae Marthae in early January 1922 and while he waited for his driver out in the rain he fell ill with the flu which turned into pneumonia. -
Quadragesimo Anno
Pius clarifies and updates four issues that Leo had addressed: church authority, private property, just wages, and worker associations. -
Pius XII Death
On the last full day of his life, his temperature rose steadily and his breathing became difficult. At 3.52 a.m. on 9 October, he gave a smile, lowered his head and died. The cause of death was recorded as acute heart failure. -
Mater et Magistra
Offered complete social teaching in his synthesis of Christianity and the defense of the earthly interests of the poor. -
Pacem in Terris
The entire encyclical was an affirmation of human rights and duties, appealing to its audience on the grounds of a common humanity. -
Gaudium et spes
In the preface, Pope Paul VI explains that he's writing to address the concerns of the real world—not just theological concerns. -
Populorum Progressio
At the outset, the author explains that it's the duty of the church to not only better understand the problem of poverty and the development of people around the world. -
Justicia in Mundo
Calling attention to the structural roots of injustice afflicting human relations, the Bishops declare that action in the pursuit of justice, and participation in the transformation of the world -
Evangelii Nutiandi
The condition of the society in which we live oblige us to seek for a new method on how to bring the Gospel message to the modern man. -
Paul VI Death
From his bed he participated in Sunday Mass at 18:00. After communion, the pope suffered a massive heart attack, after which he continued to live for three hours. On 6 August 1978 at 21:41 Paul VI died in Castel Gandolfo. -
Redemptor Hominis
In it, the new Pope traced the major objectives of his pontificate: the effort to draw all men to Christ, ecumenism. -
Laborem Exercens
It is not the role of the Church to scientifically analyze the consequences of these changes on society. -
The challenge of peace
"The whole human race faces a moment of supreme crisis in its advance toward maturity" -
Economic Justice for all
Economic Justice for all is a pastoral reflection applying the message of Economic Justice for All to the economy of the ‘90s. -
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis,
The Pope points out that despite some progress in the two decades since Populorum Progressio’s publication, the gap between developed and developing countries continued to widened in a variety of areas. -
Centesimus Annus
The encyclical Centesimus Annus was written in 1991 by Pope John Paul II on the one hundredth anniversary of Rerum Novarum. -
Evangelium Vitae
The first of the four chapters examines what the Church has identified as threats to human life. -
John Paul II Death
On Saturday, 2 April 2005, at approximately 3:30 pm, John Paul II spoke his final words in Polish, "Pozwólcie mi odejść do domu Ojca" ("Allow me to depart to the house of the Father"), to his aides, and fell into a coma about four hours later. -
Deus Caritas Est
Pope Benedict XVI wrote the encyclical Deus Caritas Est in 2005 about God’s love for humanity. -
Caritas in Veritate
It is an incremental addition to the Church’s social teaching with the stated purposes of observing the fortieth anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s great social encyclical, Populorum Progressio.
