Antonio Spadaro SJ Archives

Pope Francis to be featured in new Netflix series on the elderly

Dec 16, 2020

Netflix has announced that next year it plans to release a new documentary series sharing the stories of elderly people from around the world, including Pope Francis.

By Elise Ann Allen

Pope’s visit to Jesuits highlights society friends old and new

Jul 10, 2019

Pope Francis’s visit to the Jesuit headquarters in Rome on Sunday highlights not only his enduring close ties to the Society of Jesus, but the order is also where some of his greatest intellectual influences and closest papal allies can be found.

By Elise Harris

Pope Francis reveals he meets with victims of sex abuse on Fridays

Feb 15, 2018

Pope Francis has revealed that each Friday, he meets quietly with a group of survivors of sexual abuse, saying it’s important for him to hear their stories because “what they have been through is so hard, they are destroyed.”

By Austen Ivereigh

Pope on interviews: Church must listen, respond to people’s questions

Oct 17, 2017

Pope Francis is famous for giving interviews, and he says he prefers small, neighborhood newspapers and magazines. “In fact, in those cases I really am listening to the questions and concerns of common people. I try to respond spontaneously, in a conversation I hope is understandable, and not with rigid formulas,” he said. A new book collecting his interviews is coming out this week in Italian.

By Cindy Wooden

A pastor explains his politics after saying Trump has authority to attack North Korea

Aug 15, 2017

Pastor Robert Jeffress says people have overreacted to his statement that God has given President Donald Trump the authority to “take out” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The Baptist leader said the Bible has given government the authority to use whatever force necessary, including assassination or war, to topple an evil dictator. The remarks came just a month after an article in a Vatican-approved journal said an Evangelical fundamentalism that was “not adverse to conflicts” was exerting influence on U.S. politics.

By Bobby Ross Jr.

Trump advisor seeks meeting with Pope Francis after “incendiary” article in Jesuit journal

Aug 8, 2017

An Evangelical leader aligned with Donald Trump has called an article about U.S. politics in the Jesuit-run journal La Civiltà Cattolica “incendiary,” but says “rather than being offended, we have chosen to attempt to make peace,” and asked for a meeting with Pope Francis.

By Crux Staff

A Latino/a take: Vatican’s ‘ecumenism of hate’ essay is onto something

Aug 7, 2017

Theologian and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, Miguel H. Diaz, contends that the central theological insights and socio-political implications for American society voiced by Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro and Reverend Marcelo Figueroa in a controversial article on U.S. politics in a Vatican-affiliated publication find a home within the hearts of Latinos/as and other “underrepresented” communities in the United States.

By Miguel Diaz

Evangelicals are potential allies for the good, not partners in hate

Jul 17, 2017

Trumpism, so to speak, which is a lot more complicated than most analysis allows for, had made it ever-easier to lump all elements of more-right-of-center American activism together. It’s important to remember that many Catholics and Evangelicals are forming coalitions in an attempt to discern God’s call to each one of us about the common good, on the front lines.

By Kathryn Jean Lopez