There is a new willingness in the Catholic Church, modeled by Pope Francis, to hold its disagreements in fruitful tension, allowing the Spirit to show new paths forward that transcend those divisions.
Austen Ivereigh
Austen Ivereigh is a Fellow in Contemporary Church History at Campion Hall, at the University of Oxford, and a biographer of Pope Francis. In 2020 he collaborated with Pope Francis on his Let Us Dream: the Path to a Better Future, published by Simon & Schuster.
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I helped write the first global synod document. Here’s what we heard from Catholics around the world.
Following the listening phase of the Synod on Synodality, a mix of religious, clergy and lay people gathered in Frascati, Italy, to synthesize reports from around the world. Austen Ivereigh took part and gives this insider’s account.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Remembering Father Diego Fares, our greatest interpreter of Pope Francis
Diego Fares, S.J., who died of cancer last week in Rome at age 66, was arguably the greatest interpreter of the thought and way of proceeding of Pope Francis.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Boris Johnson and the prophet Hosea’s wisdom for the future of U.K. politics
“Sow integrity for yourselves,” urges Hosea. Right now in the U.K., that feels like the most urgent political task.
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Latin America just had its first continent-wide church assembly. Here’s what happened.
It was Pope Francis who suggested that this was the moment for the continent to revive the vision of Aparecida—only this time in a synodal way, with the people of God as the protagonist.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Pope Francis was right to call out the attacks from EWTN. You don’t dialogue with the devil.
You don’t dialogue with the devil. But if you’re the pope, you might choose to call out the devil’s work.
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The key to understanding Pope Francis’ restrictions on the Latin Mass? His belief in inculturation.
“Let us not forget that a faith that is not inculturated is not authentic,” Francis told the Latin American Confederation of Religious.
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Boris Johnson had every right to be married in the Catholic Church.
While the optics of Boris Johnson’s marriage in a Catholic church this weekend suggest a double standard, in fact the church seems to be treating him the same it would any divorced Catholic seeking to remarry.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis calls upon the Catholic charismatic community to work for justice
The pope’s message poses a sharp challenge to a movement known more for personal conversion and evangelization than practical mercy.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
After Boris gets Brexit done, what’s next for Britain?
As dawn broke after polling day, it was clear that the Boris Johnson earthquake had shattered the “red wall” of Labour strongholds across north Wales and in England’s northwest, Midlands and northeast.