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Gaudete et exsultate

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Ross Douthat on Francis’ pontificate: “We live in interesting times as Catholics”

April 18, 2018 Paul Senz 12

The New York Times columnist and author of To Change the Church discusses his new book on the Pope, and what he hopes his liberal and secular […]

Features

“Gaudete et exsultate” is beautiful for its simplicity, frustrating for its failures

April 15, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 8

Pope Francis should be more careful, for he tends to overstate matters and to attack weak sisters even when he does not set up straw […]

Features

Reading Pope Francis with both respectful docility and critical charity

April 11, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 87

Catholics frustrated with Pope Francis’ style and record of leadership ought not allow partial accounts to poison them against the Holy Father. […]

The Dispatch

The temptation and the challenge of reading “Gaudete et exsultate”

April 9, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 28

Whatever else there is to say about the document and regardless of one’s personal, spiritual, or intellectual disposition toward Pope Francis, it is fair to […]

Features

Pope Francis to issue apostolic exhortation on holiness, “Gaudete et exsultate”

April 5, 2018 Catholic News Agency 16

Subtitled “on the call to holiness in the contemporary world”, the exhortation will be presented April 9 by Archbishop Angelo De Donatis, vicar general of […]

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