Pius Was Silent. Leo Will Not Be.
On a fall day in 1946, a twelve-year-old girl knelt before Pope Pius XII in the Vatican. He placed his hand on her head and blessed her as a Catholic war hero, honoring her for defending Poland against the Nazis....
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Cardinal Koovakad on Interreligious Dialogue in a Changing World
(This interview has been edited for length and clarity. It was originally published by Indian Catholic Matters on February 25, 2026.) In a world increasingly shaped by religious diversity and global interconnection, few church leaders embody the lived experience of...
An explosion of mutual enrichment
A reflection on the readings for Sunday, September 26, 2021 — The Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time The first person I ever spoke to about becoming a Catholic priest was a Methodist minister. I remember it like it was yesterday—I was sitting...
What did Pope Francis say about the Law?
Reuters recently reported that some Israeli rabbis had written the Vatican to express their “distress” about one line from Pope Francis’s recent addresses on Galatians: “The Law, however, does not give life.” According to Reuters, the rabbis worry that this...
Vigano: Radical Traditionalism Redivivus
Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States from 2011-16, made headlines two years ago when he alleged, without evidence, that Pope Francis knew about the crimes of former-Archbishop Theodore McCarrick but employed him anyway. Recently, he...
Religious Liberty, Neglected by Christendom, Restored in Vatican II
In the first few centuries of Christian history, Christians found themselves persecuted simply because they were Christian. While there are debates about the number of Christians that were actually tortured or killed, the fact remains that early Christians were tortured...
A Contradiction of Faith and Life
“As I have often repeated, a Christian cannot be an anti-Semite; we share the same roots. It would be a contradiction of faith and life. Rather, we are called to commit ourselves to ensure anti-Semitism is banned from the human...
Pope Francis and Grand Imam sign joint statement on Human Fraternity
Yesterday Pope Francis, during his historic first-ever visit of a Roman pontiff to the Arabian peninsula, again made big news by signing a joint statement on “Human Fraternity” with the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb. He’s sort of like the Sunni...
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