We’re told the pope abstains from TV, but likes a good movie. Here’s some suggestions from America staff and contributors.
Fratelli Tutti
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Life without parole is a ‘secret death penalty.’ It’s also against Catholic teaching.
In “Fratelli Tutti,” Pope Francis writes that punishment must include “healing and reintegration into society.” A sentence of life without parole, writes Nicholas Goldrosen, violates this principle.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Joe Biden quotes Pope Francis’ new encyclical to warn against ‘phony populism’
A week out from the U.S. Election, Joe Biden turned to Pope Francis’ latest encyclical for inspiration in a brief address given in Warm Springs, Ga.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Screen time is officially part of Catholic Social Teaching. What does it mean for us and our iPhones?
The church needs to pay more attention to the moral impact of screens on our identity, agency and relationships.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Czerny on ‘Fratelli Tutti’: Pope Francis addresses a world ‘on the brink’
“We’re on the brink,” Cardinal Czerny said, because people are suffering from “a health collapse and an economic collapse, at the same moment as the Paris Climate Agreement I.O.U.s are coming in and there is a migrant situation that is dire.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
In ‘Fratelli Tutti,’ Pope Francis identifies the paradox of populism
Dr. Anna Rowlands told America that Pope Francis ““gets populism. He gets what is the drive toward it and he rescues the notion of what it means to be ‘a people’ from the hands of the populists.”
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Five theologians on the biggest takeaways from ‘Fratelli Tutti’
As part of our larger coverage of “Fratelli Tutti,” the latest encyclical letter from Pope Francis, America asked a number of theologians and church experts to contribute a brief response, including their perspectives on its potential impact and its particular areas of import.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
Editorial: ‘Fratelli Tutti’ challenges the American way of life. Are we listening?
Francis reminds us that it is always people who suffer from these injustices: the poor, the disabled, women, racial minorities, migrants, refugees, the elderly, prisoners, the unborn, the lonely.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: How ‘Fratelli Tutti’ is a step forward in Catholic-Muslim relations
This week on the “Inside the Vatican” podcast, Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell and producer Colleen Dulle unpack their takeaways from Pope Francis’ new encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
First Muslim to ever present a papal encyclical praises ‘Fratelli Tutti’
Jude Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel Salem, an advisor to the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, praised Pope Francis as being dedicated to achieving “human fraternity.”