Treating symptoms—even treating illnesses—is not the same as treating a person.
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A Vatican reporter on keeping the faith amid the Catholic Church’s scandals
What happened when the place I had gone for consolation became the focus of my anger
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Pope Francis’ wisdom for our current migrant crisis
What did Papa Francisco see that we need to see? What tools do we have so we can choose correctly? And how do we act following our discernment?
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Catholics and infertility: The spiritual and ethical challenges of trying to conceive
And how the church can accompany couples struggling with infertility
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Brother Alois of Taizé remembers Pope Francis: A life defined by the courage of faith
Francis always encouraged me in our attempt to move forward as an ecumenical community and in welcoming young people from different churches who come to Taizé from all over the world. He was the pope, but also a father and a brother to me.
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Pope Francis wanted the church to be a field hospital. Will this legacy endure?
Pope Francis centered the poor and elevated joy in the mission of the church. These characteristics help us understand what a field hospital church is about. As a field hospital, the church’s structures and actions should always be in service of its mission.
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Pope Francis never stopped being a Jesuit
“Pope Francis entered the papacy as a Jesuit, governed as one and died as one,” Father James Martin writes.
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Pope Francis, trailblazing Jesuit with a heart for the poor, dies at 88
When the cardinals voted to elect Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the 265th successor of St. Peter on the evening of March 13, 2013, few of them imagined what kind of pope he would be.
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The antidote to Christian nationalism
We need a healthier public square in which people of all backgrounds can work together.
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Ministering to women survivors of sexual exploitation: How Milwaukee’s Franciscan Peacemakers saves lives
Franciscan Peacemakers is the home base for a social enterprise, which provides women survivors of sexual trafficking with work experience and a means to support themselves financially.