The Church has problems with China and the Catholics there, but they are different in nature from those with the SSPX. Many people, rightly concerned about the life of the Church, have blamed the Pope for excommunicating the SSPX while maintaining dialogue with the Chinese Church, controlled by the communists. It’s indeed a thorny issue, […]
In his messages to the United States on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Pope Leo XIII builds upon Cardinal J. Bernardin’s discourse on a consistent ethics of life in order to define the position of the Catholic Church in the face of major moral and social challenges. It was […]
American conservative Catholics could help steer the presidency away from the losing battle of the “culture wars” and toward a pragmatic and substantial Trump’s political revolution. Following the episcopal ordinations performed by the Lefebvrian Society of St. Pius X, the Holy issued a decree of excommunication formalizing the schism. Excommunicated are all bishops, priests, and […]
The schism leaves conservatives more isolated and with fewer arguments. Perhaps, in this way, the Holy Spirit makes the Church freer to speak to eight billion people. Not even the June 30’s heartfelt appeal by Pope Leo XIV (“why tear the seamless tunic of Christ?”[1] ) prevented the celebration of the episcopal ordination of four […]
Artificial intelligence and the digital systems on which it is based represent a total environment — the world, plain and simple — in which machines produce culture rather than human beings. The humanistic challenge lies in shaping a way of inhabiting this (digital) world, begetting culture through practices of love that enable each individual to […]
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical offers theological and humanistic insights into the potential and risks of artificial intelligence for human dignity. It is also a declaration of the “dream of a new modernity,” in which the Catholic Church, nations, peoples, and international institutions collaborate to create ways of inhabiting the world that are worthy of […]
Catholicism and the concrete pursuit of peace how and where to draw the line — is a concrete thorn in the Church, evidence of the real effort. For years, Catholic theology—and perhaps the Church itself—has faced an unresolvable dilemma when it comes to peace. The more decisive and radical the stance against war, the less […]
