The final twist in ‘Conclave’ is hardly sensationalistic: it raises real questions about how the Church accommodates people outside binaries of sex and gender.
“As Francis has magnificently shown us, a pope serves the People of God with a total self-giving, ad vitam: in sickness or in health, strong or frail, able-bodied or wheelchair-bound, clear in voice or raspy and breathless.”
The risk of nuclear war is higher now than it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Catholic principles of just peace can move us back from the brink.
Like all human institutions, the Church has often failed. But it is more than its failures—and much more than the endless quarrels over Vatican II or sexual morality.
The Trump-Vance presidency has the characteristics of an “übermagisterium” aiming to replace the teaching of the Church with a political-religious ideology.
A father and son pair of biblical scholars insist that changing one’s mind about sexuality is legitimated by the way Scripture shows God changing his mind.
What drove me out of Shiloh Fellowship was not exorcism but the emphasis on subjective emotion to the exclusion of almost everything else, including Christian doctrine.
This jubilee’s theme, “Pilgrims of Hope,” is meant to offer a message of comfort to victims of international warfare, the pandemic, and climate change.
Deeply committed to the principles of Catholic social teaching, Archbishop Roberto González Nieves has been a moral voice on every major social issue in Puerto Rico in the past generation.
If you’re looking for a Christmas gift for a music lover who enjoys English history, this well-written, thoroughly researched history of Handel’s ‘Messiah’ might be the choice.
Highlighting the link between family unity and immigration might be a way to sway the hearts of conservative Catholics who’ve fallen for Trump’s vile claims against immigrants.
