This “Looking Back” post is about Pope Francis and how American Catholics saw him, but maybe more importantly […]
Pope Francis
To me the foundation of my spirituality lies in the words of Jesus in Matthew 25, particularly verse 40: ‘Truly I […]
I want to pen some final words about Pope Francis here. The title of this post is a […]
In Francis’ encyclical Laudato SÃ, he took aim at the West’s “extreme and selective consumerism” and “throwaway culture,” […]
the mark of the shepherd is you have got the smell of the sheep. You have to go […]
I have to put out a quick post here following Pope Francis’ speech before our congress. To me […]
On Sept. 24, Francis will be the first pontiff ever to speak before a joint session of Congress. […]
The problem is simply that Francis has broken from too many elements in the Republican Party platform. First […]
Francis issued a blistering indictment of the Vatican bureaucracy Monday, accusing the cardinals, bishops and priests who serve […]
After spending $43 million on residential renovations, German bishop Monsignor Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst was suspended. On Wednesday, Pope […]
Pope Francis, laying out his hopes Wednesday for the just-begun year, urged people to work for a world […]
“In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a […]
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis said in the first peace message of his pontificate that huge salaries […]
Worth reading is a recent interview with Pope Francis conducted by Eugenio Scalfari of La Repubblica. Scalfari, an […]
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