During an interview with Australian Jesuit Father David Holdcroft, the Economic Inclusion Specialist for the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in Rome, he remarked how, “Pope Francis seems to not be popular in America.” This statement came as both a surprise but no surprise to this West Coast-based Catholic because the portrait of the...
What does it really mean to be a “faithful Catholic”? And can that term be misused—sometimes dangerously? In this video, Pedro Gabriel explores a growing and worrying trend: Catholics who proudly wear the title “faithful” while openly rejecting the authority of the Pope, the Magisterium, or key Church teachings. We’ll break down: –...
This is a loud cry of pain from children whose dignity has been wounded. It cannot and must not leave anyone indifferent. -Pope St. John Paul II …yet how indifferent have we become. The utter tragedy of Gazan families has slipped from prominence in the headlines, after leading for but a day or...
The situation which We have just outlined has led to doctrinal dissent. The dissent, in turn, supposedly justified by theological pluralism, often develops into relativism in the area of dogma, so that the integrity of the faith itself is diminished in various ways. But even if things do not go to this extreme,...
[Editor’s Note: In light of the ongoing debates in the Catholic Church (particularly in the United States) over ecclesiology and papal primacy, we are republishing the English text of Pope St. Paul VI’s apostolic exhortation Paterna cum benevolenta, promulgated at the beginning of the 1975 Jubilee year. Sadly, this important exhortation — which...
A new friend, an accomplished writer whom I met for the first time last weekend, gifted me a copy of The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom. I couldn’t put it down. While I’ve studied World War II as history, such an integral and personal story, comprehensive enough to include snippets of ordinary...
[Editor’s note: This article by Mark Joseph Williams and Fr. Hans Zollner, SJ, speaks with clarity and honesty about one of the most painful and urgent issues facing the Church: how it listens to, responds to, and accompanies survivors of clergy sexual abuse. Rather than offering abstract theories or institutional talking points, this...
Cursed be anyone who deprives the resident alien, the orphan or the widow of justice!” And all the people shall answer, “Amen!” ~Deuteronomy 27:19 You shall not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When testifying in a lawsuit, you shall not follow the crowd in perverting justice. ~Exodus 23:2 You shall keep away...
Homily for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time “If there are ten righteous people, I will not destroy it.” Abraham intercedes for the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. He is told that yes, if there are ten righteous people to be found there, the two cities would not be destroyed. So, let’s extend...
Is Pope Leo XIV really “correcting” Pope Francis on synodality—or simply echoing the same vision? In this video, Pedro Gabriel unpacks Dr. Jeff Mirus’s recent article praising Leo’s “true synodality” and shows how, in fact, Francis has always placed the promptings of the Holy Spirit and the “journeying together” as a Church at the...
A very brief post, but all the more significant for that: Last night in Komanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an all-night Eucharistic liturgy was interrupted by men armed with guns and machetes, believed to have been members of the so-called Allied Democratic Front, a branch of Islamic State (formerly known...
Let me paint a picture. One day, Jesus was praying. Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray” (Lk 11:1). What place did he choose to pray? What would have been his posture? How did he pray?...
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