Short (5-20 mins)
Ethics
Roman Catholic
This 135-Year-Old Document by Pope Leo XIII Still Shapes the Church Today | EWTN News Nightly
Theologian
Anna Rowlands
Duration
5.17
Uploaded to YouTube
15 May 2026
Added to Database
8 June 2026
YouTube description
Today marks 135 years since the publication of one of the most important papal documents of the modern age. On this day in 1891, Pope Leo XIII released the encyclical Rerum Novarum—often called the "Magna Carta" of Catholic social teaching. Anna Rowlands, professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice at Durham University, joins to share more about the encyclical, why it was needed, and how it influenced the popes after Leo XIII.
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