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Pope Francis: Diverse religious identities are ‘a gift from God’

Pope Francis addresses young adults gathered in Tirana, Albania, for the Mediterranean Encounters 2024 conference on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. / Credit: The Archdiocese of Tiranë–Durrës

Rome Newsroom, Sep 17, 2024 / 10:50 am (CNA).
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On the holy life and remarkable intellect of Saint Robert Bellarmine

On September 17, 1621, the Cardinal-priest Robert Bellarmine died in Rome. Why did Pope Pius XI declare him a saint in 1930? And why did [...]
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The Nicene Creed is “a medicine for our times”

The Nicene Creed: A Scripture. Historical & Theological Commentary, published recently by Baker Academic, is co-authored by two Catholic theologians and professors; Jared Ortiz and [...]
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Here’s what will be new at the Synod on Synodality part 2

Organizers discuss the upcoming second session of the Synod on Synodality at a press conference at the Holy See Press Office on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Sep 16, 2024 / 16:15 pm (CNA).
Before the second … […]
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The many (and sometimes puzzling) paths of Pope Francis

Here we go again with yet another papal controversy over remarks made by Pope Francis to a group of young people in Singapore concerning religious pluralism. [...]

The many (and sometimes puzzling) paths of Pope Francis

Chapp's Schtick

Larry Chapp September 16, 2024 47

Here we go again with yet another papal controversy over remarks made by Pope Francis to a group of young people in Singapore concerning religious pluralism. My friend Christopher Altieri makes a good case here at [...]

What did Pope Francis say in Singapore about religions as paths to God?

Features

Christopher R. Altieri September 15, 2024 52

There’s a meme—or a class of them—been making the rounds on the innerwebz a good while now, riffing on a prompt: “You know you’re too [X] when …” etc. Someone needs to do one for [...]

Essay

The Declaration of Independence and current threats to liberal democracy

Paul Seaton September 14, 2024 3

The French Catholic poet, dramatist, and diplomat Paul Claudel once wrote that sometimes we need to look at our watches and ask, “What time is it?” He did not mean this literally. He meant something [...]

Analysis

What do Catholics think about synodality?

Jayd Henricks September 12, 2024 29

What do rank and file Catholics—the very Catholics synodality is meant to tap into—think about the Church’s synodality efforts? The Church herself tried to gauge this in an aborted X (formerly Twitter) poll. Of course, [...]

Features

Reagan‘s accuracy and message undermined by cheesy quality

Filip Mazurczak September 11, 2024 13

Ronald Wilson Reagan, President of the United States from 1981 to 1989, was one of the great leaders of the twentieth century. His bold defense policy, rejection of détente, and support for anti-communist freedom fighters, [...]

Columns

9/11 Revisited

James V. Schall, S.J. September 10, 2024 30

Editor’s note: This essay by the late Fr. James V. Schall was published originally in slightly different form at Ignatius Insight on September 8, 2006, to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 [...]

Essay

The Body at Prayer

Fr. Erik Varden, OCSO September 9, 2024 61

Editor’s note: The following lecture given, in slighly different form, to open an ecumenical symposium at Bjärka Säby. The lecture was followed by a public conversation with Professor Sarah Coakley. It was published originally on the author’s CoramFratribus.com site and appears here with [...]

Essay

“The Glorious Palms of Martyrs”: On the Damascus Martyrs of 1860

J. J. Ziegler September 8, 2024 0

On May 23, Pope Francis approved a request by the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to canonize eight Franciscan friars and three Maronite laymen martyred during the massacre of Christians in Damascus in July 1860. On July 1, [...]

The many (and sometimes puzzling) paths of Pope Francis

Larry Chapp September 16, 2024 47

Here we go again with yet another papal controversy over remarks made by Pope Francis to a group of young people in Singapore concerning religious pluralism. My friend Christopher Altieri makes a good case here at [...]
9/11 Revisited

James V. Schall, S.J. September 10, 2024 30
The world, the Gospel, and the Most Real Being

James Kalb September 7, 2024 13

Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2024 52

A week ago, the editors of the National Catholic Register published an editorial titled “It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art”. Their strong stance, they said, was “not an expedient surrender to iconoclasm or ‘cancel [...]
Welcome to the Church of Perpetual Change and Confusion

Carl E. Olson October 19, 2023 70
Synodality, Soteriology, and “Sharing the journey”

Carl E. Olson October 10, 2023 21

Pope Francis: Diverse religious identities are ‘a gift from God’

On the holy life and remarkable intellect of Saint Robert Bellarmine

The Nicene Creed is “a medicine for our times”

Here’s what will be new at the Synod on Synodality part 2

The many (and sometimes puzzling) paths of Pope Francis

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The many (and sometimes puzzling) paths of Pope Francis

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