Newly elected popes often use their first public acts to signal the direction of their papacy. Pope Leo XIV has followed this custom with a clear message: continuity. His choice of name was the first clue. Breaking with Francis’s and...
In my last article, I described how the Church’s opposition to the death penalty, formalized in Pope Francis’s 2018 revision of the Catechism, reflects more than just a momentary shift; it is the culmination of a long, deliberate development in...
[Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final installment in a series on “Vatican II and Theological Paradigms” by Michel Therrien, STL, STD, exploring the root causes of internal divisions and polarization in the post-conciliar Church, particularly the debate over...
“Following the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and paying close attention to the special needs of our times, I devoted the encyclical Redemptor Hominis to the truth about man, a truth that is revealed to us in its fullness...
There are, unfortunately, Catholics who think that defending Pope Francis involves tearing down his predecessors. Throughout his pontificate, they have portrayed almost everything Pope Francis has done as “finally correcting” the bad practices of his predecessors and ignoring the good...
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