Like any journalist I hate to be beaten to a story, and this week Catholic World News (CWN) was late on a big one. Yet I have no regrets. If you’ll join me for a few minutes behind my editorial
Yesterday, Pope Francis released a Motu Proprio about how to do theology in the modern context. Titled Ad theologiam promovendam, it makes the case that theology must no longer be from a “desk” and must no longer be merely “abstractly
As the synodal sessions in Rome approach their half-time break, participants are preparing to vote on the text of an interim report on their work. The assembly has also decided to issue a “Letter to the People of God” —
Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun has criticized some of Pope Francis’ responses to five dubia that he and four other cardinals sent him ahead of the Synod on Synodality, saying among other criticisms that the Pope’s guidance on the blessing of
On October 5, Francis received Cindy McCain, widow of the late US Senator McCain, a activist for homosexuality, and director of the UN World Food Programme. She gave Francis a kachina doll, which represents a demon
I am in Rome and ensconced in a reasonably decent hotel near the Vatican. Sorry for the delay in posting on the Synod but it took me longer than usual to get over my jet lag and I had
Left-wing Catholic news outlets such as the National Catholic Reporter and the Jesuit-run America Magazine have been gathering their efforts and funding to ensure they control the narratives surrounding the upcoming synod of bishops.
Eighteen years ago, a College of Cardinals largely appointed by the pope whose reign had just ended wanted continuity, and so they elected the man who’d been the intellectual architect of the previous administration. Thus it was that Cardinal Joseph
….The attempt at total narrative control via the redeployment of the slogans of the original failed Great Revolution back in the Sixties and Seventies…. requires the airbrushing out of the enemies of the Great Revolution—Popes John Paul and Benedict….
March 13 ought to have been a happy day in Rome. But the mood in and around Vatican City before, during and after the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’s election was more somber than festive — and not
