A viral thought experiment has been making the rounds online: press one button and guarantee your own survival, or press another and take a risk to save everyone. Is the most “rational” choice really the right one? Or is there something deeper guiding our instincts? The more you think about this question, the...
As we approach the anniversary of Pope Leo’s election, I spoke with Sr. Carino Hodder about his first year as the Supreme Pontiff. We talked about how Leo’s Augustinian background may be shaping his governing style, as well as how we see him as the “Catechist Pope.” We also discuss some of the...
The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking. Where the world sees threats, she sees children; where walls are built, she builds bridges. She knows that her proclamation of the Gospel is credible only when it is translated into gestures of closeness and welcome. And she knows that in every rejected...
A viral thought experiment has been making the rounds online: press one button and guarantee your own survival, or press another and take a risk to save everyone. Is the most “rational” choice really the right one? Or is there something deeper guiding our instincts? The more you think about this question, the...
As we approach the anniversary of Pope Leo’s election, I spoke with Sr. Carino Hodder about his first year as the Supreme Pontiff. We talked about how Leo’s Augustinian background may be shaping his governing style, as well as how we see him as the “Catechist Pope.” We also discuss some of the...
The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking. Where the world sees threats, she sees children; where walls are built, she builds bridges. She knows that her proclamation of the Gospel is credible only when it is translated into gestures of closeness and welcome. And she knows that in every rejected...
Hunger remains a devastating issue throughout the world. According to a World Health Organization report, a little more than 8% of the global population faced hunger in 2024. That is about 673 million people, which is the slightly more than the combined populations of the United States and Indonesia. Additionally, among those who...
For nearly four decades, English-speaking Catholics have quoted the Vatican on a sentence it never actually wrote. I speak here of Section 16 of the 1986 Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons (hereafter, Pastoral Letter). A single missing word in an early English translation...
Pope Leo XIV’s recent trip to Africa wasn’t just a series of visits—it was a window into the deeper vision shaping his pontificate. In this video, Pedro Gabriel breaks down five key themes that kept coming up throughout the journey: from Augustinian theology and Catholic social teaching, to peace, the culture of encounter,...
Over the past few weeks, Pope Leo XIV’s commitment to Gospel truth has powerfully evangelized parts of society that are generally unaware of papal activities. Non-Catholics (even agnostics) have been saying, “He’s my pope,” and “I never really paid attention to the Pope before but he is really good.” While their statements reflect...
Editor’s Note: Rodrigo Guerra López delivered this paper on April 15, 2026, at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences plenary session on “The Uses of Power: Legitimacy, Democracy, and the Rewriting of the International Order” — a video of his presentation is embedded below. He diagnoses how today’s neo-populisms, right and left, manipulate...
Dear brothers and sisters, today is World Day of Migrants and Refugees, whose theme [this year] is: “Free to choose whether to migrate or to stay”, to recall that to migrate should be a free choice, and never the only one possible. Indeed, the right to migrate has now become an obligation for...
Bishop Robert Barron is at it again. Three months after his ill-judged intervention on the Trump administration’s so-called immigration enforcement policies, Barron has come to the defense of the same administration’s war against Iran, a war that Pope Leo XIV has strongly implied Catholics are to view as unjust and immoral. As people...
Much of Pope Leo XIV’s journey to Africa has been overshadowed by a media firestorm over tweets and comments US President Donald Trump made about the pope, and sadly Leo’s message and the people of Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea have been drowned out by partisan voices on the other side of...
WPI covered the Prayer Vigil for peace last week, however, there was so much other breaking news that the story was likely lost in the torrent of posts and reflections that followed it. For that reason, we are reposting this piece that first appeared in The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests on April...
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