In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with John Pinheiro, director of research at the Acton Institute, and Daniel Wagner, chair of the philosophy department and director of Catholic Studies at Aquinas College, about the election of Pope Leo XIV. Why is the election of an American pope so surprising? How is his choice of name significant? How will the legacy of Pope Leo XIII in philosophy and Catholic Social Teaching inform Leo XIV’s papacy? What are the “new things” of the 21st century that the new pope will address?

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Pope Leo XIV and a New Age of ‘New Things’ | The Dispatch

Pope 267: The Guessing Game | Religion & Liberty Online

All Things Conclave | Acton Institute

Aeterni Patris (August 4, 1879) | LEO XIII

Rerum Novarum (May 15, 1891) | LEO XIII

Centesimus Annus (May 1, 1991) | John Paul II

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Pope Leo XIV on the counterculture of the new evangelization (Part 2 of 2)

FULL TEXT AND VIDEO: Pope Leo XIV’s homily at Mass with the cardinal electors in the Sistine Chapel | Catholic News Agency

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The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion | Berger, Peter L. Berger