Despite risks, Iraqis want Pope Francis to go ahead with visit
- Mar 4, 2021
Stephen Bullivant is both a sociologist and theologian, and this gives him insight why so many people are leaving the Catholic Church.
It was June 13, 1960, when a distinguished French Jewish historian, intellectual and educator named Jules Isaac met St. John XXIII in a Vatican audience.
Monsignor Kevin Irwin believes that liturgy can aid priests in having the smell of the sheep.
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.
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.
There’s a sense in which the Francis papacy can be understood as a sort of salsa-infused homage to St. John XXIII.
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.