Father Christopher has dodged Muslim extremists in Sudan, killers in the D.R., and cartels in Mexico in order to bring schools, clinics, and the Gospel to the poor.
Mexico's revolution of 100 years ago sought to extirpate Catholic faith. Thanks for lay faithful, it was not entirely successful but at the cost of blood.
Cardinal Zuppi’s proposal is not new. For example, Cardinal Jozef De Kesel has defended the position, which stems from a 1960s-era theology and the thought of Jacques Maritain, who dreamed of a “new Christendom” detached from the old.
Dilexi Te echoes Dilexit Nos, which was published in 2024 by Pope Francis. In the new exhortation, Pope Leo reaffirms Catholic teachings about the poor.
Hamas is trying to renegotiate the plans for ending the conflict. But as long as the U.S. president doesn’t budge on the terms he laid down, then Israel and decency will win.
Leo XIV will visit with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew as part of his mission to Turkey and Lebanon in the midst of renewed political tensions in the Middle East.
The Holy See Secretary of State spoke to Vatican Media on the second anniversary of Hamas's “inhuman” attack on Israel, which unleashed the destruction of the Gaza Strip. He says that what is happening in Gaza is “inhuman”, and that he's struck by the turnout at peace marches. He adds that antisemitism is a cancer that must be eradicated.
A cohort of angry young people are already defeated in life by unemployment, high debt load, and dwindling prospects. And it was not in their interest that Biden imported low-wage, uneducated illegal masses.