Not only did Pope Leo XIII collapse to the floor after celebrating Mass, but doctors couldn't find a pulse. A priest who witnessed this 1886 drama testified: "His expression was one of horror and ...

For Leo XIII the unity of Christendom was a matter not merely of expediency, however urgent, though nobody realized better than he did, as pages of Praeclara Gratulationis show, how urgent was the ...

The great encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, which may well be called the workman’s charter of liberties, is a doctrinal expression of the principles which Harmel strove during his long life of eighty-six ...