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By Dr. R. Jared Staudt, Catholic World Report - Pope Leo XIV surprised the cardinals with the choice of his papal name and then did the same when he announced his intention to focus on the AI Revolution... When he addressed the College of Cardinals the day after his election, he explained these choices: Sensing myself called to continue in this same path, 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. ...

By Dr. Donald DeMarco, Catholic Exchange - The fact that Robert Cardinal Prevost has taken the name Leo IV, indicating his respect for his predecessor, Leo XIII, provides Catholics with a strong incentive to return to the latter’s encyclicals.  Pope Leo’s encyclical Rerum Novarum which the new pope mentioned in particular, deals with the worker.  The encyclical outlined here, Aeterni Patris, concerns philosophy.  There can be no doubt that these two encyclicals complement each other while providing important contributions concerning how Catholics should live and how they should think.

By Michael Haynes, LifeSite News, (Complicit Clergy) - Advocacy group Human Rights Watch has called on Pope Leo XIV to conduct an urgent review into the Vatican’s secretive deal with Communist China... In a public statement issued following the May 8 election of Pope Leo XIV, Human Rights Watch urged the American pontiff to address one of the more controversial issues left by his predecessor – namely the Sino-Vatican deal on the appointment of bishops in China... “Chinese Catholics worshiping in underground churches are among the ‘ordinary people’ on whom Pope Leo has said the church should focus its attention” ....

By Darrick Taylor, Crisis Magazine - A reporter recently asked U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a practicing Catholic, how he reconciled the teachings of the Catholic Church with the Trump administration’s aggressive stance against illegal and mass migration. Rubio gave an interesting answer about the nature of mass migration, but he also insisted that “the pope is not a political figure.” This is the kind of answer that Catholic politicians who take the Faith seriously are wont to make, and I understand why Rubio and other Catholics in the administration, such as J.D. Vance, use it from time to time. There is just one problem with it: it is not true.