The Synod called for lay people to have more influence in choosing bishops—Pope Leo should listen
These are sensible recommendations that Pope Leo should accept.
Taiwan’s tiny Catholic Church faces youth exodus as big powers decide the island’s fate
While the world know about the crisis between mainland China and its “breakaway province” of Taiwan, within Taiwan itself a small Catholic community is struggling with its own challenges.
Live Zoom Panel: Pope Leo XIV and Donald Trump—Making Sense of an Unprecedented Time
Join America Media’s team of experts for an exclusive, subscriber-only event to help make sense of this turbulent time in our church and in our world.
Father Henri Nouwen 101: The spirituality of a ‘wounded healer’
This week, “Jesuitical” co-host Ashley McKinless and producer Sebastian Gomes speak to Michael W. Higgins about the spiritual master, Father Henri Nouwen (1932-96). They explore Nouwen’s “wounded healer” approach to ministry, his brokenness and vulnerability, and his impact on contemporary Catholic thought. In “Signs of the Times,” Ashley and Zac discuss Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s meeting with Pope Leo, plans for a border wall through a pilgrimage site, a cosmetics mogul turned Catholic priest, and when customer service hung up on Pope Leo. Links from the show:
Pope Leo says rise of AI-directed warfare leads to a ‘spiral of annihilation’
Pope Leo XIV on Thursday denounced how investments in artificial intelligence and high-tech weaponry were leading the world into a “spiral of annihilation.”
They tell us border nets, 10,000 feet high,
What good are great blue herons reflecting our quiet thoughts
‘Father, forgive me’: James O’Toole on Confession in America
In his artful account of American participation in the sacrament of confession, ‘For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America,’ James O’Toole offers a succinct analysis of when and why American Catholics partake of the sacrament.
Review: Mario Vargas Llosa’s final book approaches the question of nationhood
His final work, published now for the first time in English, Mario Varvas Lloisa approaches the question of nationhood not in the abstract terms of a sociologist or philosopher, but obliquely, through a kind of literary ventriloquism, in a hybrid form combining the novel and essay.
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