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Three Vatican-related events in eleven days reveal a new, doctrinal gap between the Catholic Church and Judaism, centered on Zionism and the State of Israel, that diplomacy alone cannot bridge....
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Pope Leo XIV’s visit to France addresses assisted dying, abuse accountability, European peace, and a surge in young adult baptisms through a defense of human dignity....
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The worldwide collapse in birth rates is not chiefly economic but anthropological, revealing societies that no longer expect anything genuinely new, with loneliness its statistical twin....
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Dr D'Cunha is right that clericalism is a wound, that it has cost the Church credibility it may not recover in my lifetime, and that several of her practical proposals are overdue. I want to say that plainly before I say the rest, because the rest is a serious...
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Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas rejects the global culture of military and economic dominance, calling instead for a “civilization of love” centered on human dignity, shared responsibility, and the common good....
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Pope Leo XIV has improved US–Vatican relations, and the American Catholic right that opposed Francis has softened toward him, yet he refuses to be cast as an anti-Trump voice....
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Clericalism and synodality are opposites: ending clerical privilege, unpaid domestic servitude and closed-door governance, and reclaiming the baptismal dignity of the laity, is the structural cleansing a synodal Church requires....
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As religion returns as a tool of power from Washington to Moscow to Delhi, faith risks becoming an identity weapon; the Church stays effective only by remaining free and unenlistable....
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At a youth gathering in Assisi, Pope Leo XIV challenged young Europeans to reject fear-driven tribalism and hesitation, urging them to embrace the world through authentic human connection and courageous, definitive life choices....
Three Vatican-related events in eleven days reveal a new, doctrinal gap between the Catholic Church and Judaism, centered on Zionism and the State of Israel, that diplomacy alone cannot bridge....
Pope Leo XIV’s visit to France addresses assisted dying, abuse accountability, European peace, and a surge in young adult baptisms through a defense of human dignity....
The worldwide collapse in birth rates is not chiefly economic but anthropological, revealing societies that no longer expect anything genuinely new, with loneliness its statistical twin....
Dr D'Cunha is right that clericalism is a wound, that it has cost the Church credibility it may not recover in my lifetime, and that several of her practical proposals are overdue. I want to say that plainly before I say the rest, because the rest is a serious...
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas rejects the global culture of military and economic dominance, calling instead for a “civilization of love” centered on human dignity, shared responsibility, and the common good....
Clericalism and synodality are opposites: ending clerical privilege, unpaid domestic servitude and closed-door governance, and reclaiming the baptismal dignity of the laity, is the structural cleansing a synodal Church requires....
As religion returns as a tool of power from Washington to Moscow to Delhi, faith risks becoming an identity weapon; the Church stays effective only by remaining free and unenlistable....
At a youth gathering in Assisi, Pope Leo XIV challenged young Europeans to reject fear-driven tribalism and hesitation, urging them to embrace the world through authentic human connection and courageous, definitive life choices....