A Revolutionary Pope for Revolutionary Times - Crisis Magazine

A Revolutionary Pope for Revolutionary Times - Crisis Magazine: Eighty-one year old men are not the first people who come to mind when we hear the word “revolutionary.” But 125 years ago, one such man—Vincenzo Pecci, better known to history as Pope Leo XIII—did something radical. By issuing the first modern social encyclical, Rerum Novarum, he ushered in a new era for Catholicism’s relationship …