After two professors of theology engaged in a fruitful conversation in America on the 2019 Vatican document on “‘gender theory in education,” the editors invited them each to respond once again to each other on the subject of gender identity and transgender persons.
Pope Francis
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis on his trip to Africa: God places his hope in the humble
In his weekly general audience, Pope Francis reveals what he said on his apostolic journey to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, praying that “the seeds of God’s Kingdom of love, justice and peace may germinate.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The tradition of papal telegrams: Why the pope sends a message to every country he flies over
In a sense, the pope’s messages all amount to the same thing: Hello and God bless you. But there is a care in the language that is striking.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis offers prayers for over 5,000 killed by earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
Pope Francis expressed his “spiritual closeness” and “solidarity” with those affected by a pair of powerful earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria Feb. 6.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis: Critics who used Benedict’s death ‘have no ethics’
Pope Francis hit out strongly against the way people have sought to manipulate Benedict’s death. “People who instrumentalize such a good person, [a man] of God, almost I would say a holy father of the church, have no ethics,” he said. “They are of a party, not of the church.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis tells young people: ‘You are the seed of a new South Sudan.’
Pope Francis repeated his pressing call for an end to the violence that has forced millions into camps for refugees or the internally displaced in South Sudan.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis arrives in South Sudan with a message that ‘may appear blunt and direct’ to its leaders
Pope Francis is on an ecumenical pilgrimage for reconciliation and peace with Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury; and Iain Greenshields, the moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Posted inIdeas, Politics & Society
Popes on a Plane: How the Boeing 747 changed the Catholic Church and the papacy
Prior to 1964, no pope had left Italy for 150 years. The advent of the 747 and long-haul flights enabled popes to finally visit the world, and the world to visit the pope.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
‘We thank God for the pope’: Takeaways from Pope Francis’ visit to the D.R.C.
In the D.R.C., Pope Francis has shown his advanced age and physical mobility problems have not limited his extraordinary capacity to console the afflicted, call evildoers to conversion and sustain the faithful in hope.
Posted inExplainer, Politics & Society
Three things to know about Pope Francis’ visit to South Sudan
The contemporary tension in South Sudan has a complex and disturbing history.