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- Jan 22, 2020
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Dispute ideas, pope tells theologians, but don’t confuse the faithful
- Nov 30, 2019
Theologians must explore and debate disputed questions, at times even taking “risks” with what they propose, but those discussions should take place within the academy so as not to confuse the faithful, Pope Francis said.
On Catholicism, Key West, and taking comfort in the present
- Nov 10, 2019
One way the Catholic instinct seeps through in Key West is a tendency among locals to compare the present state of the place unfavorably to a half-remembered, half-imagined past.
In a secondary sense, Pope Francis delivers another homage to St. John XXIII
- Nov 2, 2019
There’s a sense in which the Francis papacy can be understood as a sort of salsa-infused homage to St. John XXIII.
New film beckons thoughts of John Paul II, synods, and global perspective
- Oct 25, 2019
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What every bishop I’ve ever spoken to who’s taken part in a Vatican synod would say, and I mean unanimously, is this: The experience helped them think in a more global way about the vicissitudes of the Church.
Ironic collision of two Sunday stories raises question of what a “poor Church” means
- Oct 21, 2019
The ironic juxtaposition of two stories on the same day illustrates a chronic confusion within the Church about what an “option for the poor” actually means.
Vatican II’s forgotten apostle of the poor stages comeback at Amazon synod
- Oct 20, 2019
One could make the argument that the Vatican II figure to whom Pope Francis is closest actually isn’t John XXIII but rather Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro of Bologna, Italy, the council’s leading apostle of the “option for the poor.”
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