“It has just expanded my worldview and deepened my spirituality," Susan Braddock said of her six years as board chair. ”That doesn’t happen that often in life.”
With “Fiducia Supplicans,” Pope Francis turns the church’s attention to the pastoral needs of same-sex couples. We can chart this development over the past two years.
'Exodus 90' is meant as a spiritual and athletic exercise for men that centers on prayer, fasting and fraternity. It gets some things wrong and some things right. In the process, it reveals some of the failures of the church today.
The 90-page book contained a chapter detailing the differences between male and female orgasms—and how one can find God’s love in either—while another chapter was titled “God in the partner’s orgasm.”
Pope Francis deplored “the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood” and called on the international community “to prohibit this practice universally.”
“The basic conflict is not between Israel and Hamas. The conflict is between Jewish Israeli nationalism and Palestinian nationalism,” David Neuhaus, S.J., says in this exclusive interview.
We can see the ways in which the Bible has guided Francis’ pontificate—and why Pope Francis’ use of the Bible has created not just joy for many, but fear and even confusion for others.