They will continue to focus on the theme: “For a synodal church: communion, participation and mission.”
Pope Francis
Posted inFaith, Your Take
Does ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ deepen or confuse church teaching? Our readers respond.
Many readers agreed with the editors that “Fiducia Supplicans” allows the church to accompany all people who seek God’s blessing, but others were skeptical about the declaration’s efficacy and impact on church unity.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
This Chicago chef teaches inmates to cook. Pope Francis told him to keep going.
He said he told the pope, “I could spend all day here talking to you,” and Francis replied, “So could I!”
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Pope Francis and cardinals reconsider women deacons
Gerry and Ricardo analyze the pope’s meeting with his council of cardinal advisors, to which a female Anglican bishop was invited to speak about women’s ordination.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
Sex is ‘divine’: How Pope Francis is recasting Catholic Church’s views on intimacy
A book on sexuality by the Vatican’s doctrinal chief may have raised eyebrows, but Pope Francis has long been calling for the church to offer more robust teaching on sex.
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Pope Francis: Faith can be the remedy to sloth—the ‘noonday demon’
In continuing his catechesis on vices and virtues, Pope Francis warns against the effects of acedia, or sloth, which is a “lack of care” for one’s own life.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis and Argentina’s President Milei hit it off
Pope Francis and Argentina’s President Javier Milei—who last year called the pope an “imbecile” and “representative of evil” while on the campaign trail—had “a very good and very friendly” hour-long conversation.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis names Argentina’s first woman saint
In a ceremony at the beginning of Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica this morning, Pope Francis canonized María Antonia de San José de Paz y Figueroa, popularly known as Mama Antula, Argentina’s first female saint.
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New book: Pope Francis on his ‘deep relationship’ and occasional disagreements with Benedict XVI
In a newly published book interview, Pope Francis reflects on Pope Benedict XVI’s historic decision to resign, describing their deep relationship and occasional disagreements.
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Full Text: Pope Francis on the importance of liturgical reform
“The scope of liturgical reform…is precisely to bring to life the kind of formation of the faithful and ministry of pastors that will have their summit and source in the liturgy.”