'Rerum Novarum' 2.0? Catholic labor advocates heartened by Pope Leo's direction - Catholic Review

2 new books on Pope Leo look in 2 different directions

I consider myself something of an insider-outsider in Catholicism, if such a thing exists. I was raised within the stained-glass walls of St. Dominic Parish in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, a sanctuary for newly arrived Cuban refugees like my family. The parish itself was young, founded just three years before the Cuban Revolution would send waves of exiles across the Florida Straits. Those early years were marked by upheaval: Black America

'Rerum Novarum' 2.0? Catholic labor advocates heartened by Pope Leo's direction - Catholic Review

When he took the papal name Leo XIV, it was widely suggested by Vatican commentators that the former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was sending a message. A message that, like the last Leo — Pope Leo XIII, who was pope from 1878-1903 — his own pontificate would be defined by specific social concerns. Pope Leo XIV confirmed those conjectures when he first spoke to the College of Cardinals in Rome on May 10 — two days after his election — reveali…