the fiftieth anniversary of the pope's ordination, is not mentioned in the encyclical. At Lourdes, the new basilica, with its fifteen altars and murals depicting the mysteries of the rosary, was ...
Some form of the rosary has been part of Western Catholicism for almost seven hundred years. Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) wrote thirteen encyclicals on the rosary, and twentieth-century popes have been ...
It is just a little disconcerting that our Holy Father has to acknowledge that gratitude for the Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII was not universal even among Catholics. Thus he is obliged to write of ...