On a hot August night on the South Side of Chicago, Rate Field, home of the White Sox, turned into a church of baseball, filled to capacity with true believers who sang, passed the peace, cheered on a celebrity nun…
Pope Leo to meet with clergy abuse survivors during upcoming trip to France
Pope Leo XIV will meet with survivors of clergy abuse during a four-day trip to France next month that will include a visit to UNESCO headquarters, a meeting with French bishops in Lourdes and an interreligious meeting in the border city…
The liturgy wars are back. Spoiler: They never left.
Pope Leo XIV returned to Rome in late July from his summer vacation just as one of the Catholic Church’s longest-running internal conflicts came back into the spotlight.
As bishop in Peru, future Pope Leo showed himself ahead of the curve on synodality
From the first words of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV called for a synodal church that listens to its members and has repeatedly demonstrated his determination to press ahead with the sometimes controversial concept of synodality.
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel takes on popes, delves into end-times theology
In the last two weeks, the billionaire venture tech capitalist Peter Thiel has accused Pope Leo XIV of being a Chinese communist agent and insinuated in the pages of a prominent interreligious journal that Pope Francis was an Antichrist figure.
Conscientious AI objectors: HR’s role in keeping workplaces human
In the aftermath of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical letter Magifica Humanitas, human resource professionals are gearing up for a previously unexplored scenario — religious accommodations to avoid using artificial intelligence tools in the workplace. Pope Leo’s letter cautions humanity about the potential…
Defying pope and facing excommunication, SSPX consecrates bishops at huge outdoor Mass
Moments after swearing obedience to the Catholic Church, the pope and his legitimate successors, four priests were made bishops without papal approval in what Pope Leo XIV had warned would be a “schismatic act.”
The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war
The morality of warfare has been in the news recently. This occurs every so often, usually when the United States launches a dubious military action (like the one against Iran) and someone in the administration (like JD Vance) claims the support…
Pope promotes Italian nun to top migrant role in his first major appointment of a woman to Holy See
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday made his first major appointment of a woman to the Holy See hierarchy, promoting Italian Sister Alessandra Smerilli to head the Vatican office responsible for migrants, the environment and development.
Pope Leo urges outward-looking church at meeting of world’s cardinals
Pope Leo XIV told the world’s cardinals gathered in Rome that they were “not here primarily to reflect on the internal life of the church,” but to discern how they can bring the Gospel to a world scarred by war…
Vatican says “No” to German bishops’ request for lay homilies
The Vatican has rejected a request from the German bishops for permission to allow lay persons to deliver the homily in “exceptional circumstances” instead of a cleric.
Pope Leo has initiated the conversation Black Catholics have been waiting for
There is a woman I think of when I read Magnifica Humanitas. She has no name in the historical record. She exists only in the diary of Jesuit Fr. Peter Havermans, who wrote about her in November 1838, the month after the…