What unites Benedict and Francis is their common fidelity to God calling us to conversion.
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Cardinal George Pell’s fraught legacy: Pope Francis critic and financial czar
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and Gerard O’Connell discuss Cardinal Pell and his legacy, Cardinal Zen’s meeting with Pope Francis, and Archbishop Gänswein’s new tell-all book.
Posted inFaith, News
Cardinal Pell blasts Pope Francis in secret memo: ‘This pontificate is a disaster’
Cardinal Pell, who died Tuesday, had written a memo outlining his concerns about Pope Francis’ papacy, which was published soon after his death.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Read: Pope Francis begins new catechesis on ‘the passion for evangelization’
In his Wednesday general audience, Pope Francis begins a new cycle of catechesis on apostolic zeal, “a vital dimension for the Church.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis denounces arms race, death penalty and Ukraine war in speech to diplomats
Pope Francis also flatly rejected that there is a “right to abortion” and hit out strongly against what he called “ideological colonization” as well as gender theory.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Biden, Benedict and immigration: How U.S. border policy violates Catholic teaching
While some like to talk about Benedict being “conservative” and Francis “liberal,” they both have strongly upheld Catholic teaching on migration.
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Pope Francis has private audience with longtime Benedict aide amid tell-all book fallout
Pope Francis met on Monday with Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the longtime secretary of Pope Benedict XVI who has raised eyebrows with an extraordinary memoir.
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Podcast: Was Pope Francis wrong to only mention Benedict XVI once in his funeral homily?
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and Gerard O’Connell discuss the criticism that Pope Francis’ homily did not sufficiently eulogize and recognize the legacy of the former pope—and more.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis meets with Hong Kong’s Cardinal Zen the day after Benedict XVI’s funeral
Though Cardinal Zen is sometimes considered an adversary of Pope Francis, today’s audience reveals that there is a deeper bond of faith and friendliness between the Hong Kong cardinal and the Argentine pope than many realize.
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As Biden heads to El Paso, meet the bishop working at the heart of the immigration crisis
The migration crisis roiling the borderlands is literally in the backyard Bishop Seitz, the new chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee.