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Guide for Synod 2024 (Updated Frequently)

[Editor’s Note: WPI contributor Ariane Sroubek has put together this article as a guide to help readers keep up with the Synod on Synodality’s October 2024 Assembly in Rome. This page will remain “sticky” throughout the synodal assembly (meaning it will appear close to the top of the wherepeteris.com home page) and will...

Which Pope said this?

We can enter heaven only thanks to the blood of the Lamb, thanks to the blood of Christ. Christ’s own blood has justified us, which has opened for us the gates of heaven. And if today we remember our brothers and sisters who have gone before us in life and are in Heaven,...

Sacred Duty or Spiritual Truth? The Role of Religion in Society

Much of everyday modern humanity takes the most basic value of religion to be its truth value, such that exposing a religion as false should be decisive. This is largely due to Christianity, and it has long been the position of most Christians and virtually every village atheist, even those of the global...

Dilexit Nos: The Heart of God

In Dilexit Nos, Pope Francis reinforces the Church’s conviction that the central axis of the cosmos is a heart at once human and divine. This wisdom, already present in two earlier encyclicals on the Sacred Heart (Pius XI’s Miserentissimus Redemptor and Pius XII’s Haurietis Aquas), implicitly recasts and recenters anthropology, philosophy, and a host of other disciplines...

Papal Safeguarding Commission releases annual report

The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors has published its first annual report nearly a decade after Pope Francis established the Commission in 2014. In 2022, the pope directed the Commission to provide an annual assessment of safeguarding practices within the global Catholic Church, outlining areas of progress and key challenges that...

Dilexit Nos: A revolution of tenderness

In this truly beautiful encyclical, Pope Francis offers the theology specific to the “revolution of tenderness” for which he has so often and so insistently called. In one sense, I see contemplation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus as the most exalted fulfillment of the Theology of the Body. The heart of the...

Applying Doctrine, Not Dividing It: The Synod on Episcopal Conferences

Over the past months, there were concerns that the Synod would decentralize Catholic teaching authority to episcopal conferences, with many fearing that such a move could fragment the Church. Behind these concerns was the influence of the German Synodal Way, whose calls for “doctrinal developments” on topics like sexuality and the ordination of women stirred apprehension about...

Which Pope said this?

Hence, since there can be no doubt that Jesus Christ received a true body and had all the affections proper to the same, among which love surpassed all the rest, it is likewise beyond doubt that He was endowed with a physical heart like ours; for without this noblest part of the body...

Dilexit Nos: The Essential Points to Know

On October 24, 2024, Pope Francis released his fourth encyclical, dedicated to the Heart of Jesus Christ: Dilexit Nos (“He Loved Us”). What follows is a summary of the encyclical’s main themes. It does not replace a full reading of the document, especially since, given its focus on spirituality and caution against over-intellectualizing...

Dilexit Nos and the heart of Pope Francis

I have read the pope’s new encyclical, Dilexit Nos, twice today and I have avoided most of the commentary and public reactions to the document. I posted my thoughts on X earlier this afternoon, so if you saw what I wrote there, you may find some of this post redundant. I expect to...

Breaking: Vatican Releases ‘Dilexit nos’

This morning, the Vatican released Pope Francis’s fourth encyclical, Dilexit nos (He Loved Us). The document was presented at the Vatican Press Office by Monsignor Bruno Forte, Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto and Sister Antonella Fraccaro, General Superior of the Disciples of the Gospel. The release date for the document was previously announced earlier this week....