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New chair at John Paul institute to focus on realities of family life

Catholic News Service, Vatican
Jan 25, 2018

The Second Vatican Council’s document on the Church in the modern world was the culmination of the council’s efforts “to descend from the icy heights of abstraction to respond to human lives as they really are being lived,” said Jesuit Father John O’Malley, a leading historian.

Pope shakes up Chile trip with surprise visit to ‘bishop of the poor’

Pope in Chile and Peru
Jan 15, 2018

Pope Francis added an extra stop to his schedule in Chile on Monday, making time to visit the tomb of a local prelate known as the “bishop of the poor,” who resisted human rights abuses during the years of military rule.

Pope urges theologians to be ‘faithful, anchored’ to Vatican II

Vatican
Dec 29, 2017

In a session with Italian Catholic theologians on Friday, Pope Francis urged them to be “faithful and anchored” to the Second Vatican Council, especially its spirit of “creative fidelity.”

Cardinal O’Malley statement on the death of Cardinal Bernard Law

Church in the US
Dec 20, 2017

Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley on Wednesday expressed understanding for all those who see the death of Cardinal Bernard Law through the lens of the clerical sexual abuse scandals, but also insisted that Law’s life was richer than that.

Whether Francis is a ‘Reform Pope’ depends on whom you ask

News Analysis
Dec 14, 2017

Is Pope Francis an historic reformer? Well, it depends on whether Vatican II, the Franciscan reform, the child sexual abuse scandals, Vatican finances, or something else altogether is your core test of reform.

Rehabilitation won’t do much for Teilhard, but symbolically it matters

News Analysis
Nov 24, 2017

A plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Culture has recommended that Pope Francis revoke an official 1962 Vatican warning about the work of the late French Jesuit scientist, philosopher and theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Should Francis do so, it won’t really affect Teilhard’s standing, since he was largely “rehabilitated” a long time ago, but it could have important symbolic value.