By targeting Pope Leo XIV, Trump exposes the limits of power when faced with a moral authority it …
By targeting Pope Leo XIV, Trump exposes the limits of power when faced with a moral authority it …
Leo may help break a trend that has dominated American Catholicism — less religion as national glue, more …
Leo does not use the language of just war, but questions the reasoning that makes war seem possible
Easter removes God from every violence because the Risen One does not return violence; He ends the cycle …
The media narrative of Pope Leo as ‘the first American pope’ has overlooked how he shared the risks …
The core of Pope Leo’s message to Amazonia asks the world to see what is emerging, rather than …
His fusion of theology, power and technology raises urgent questions about faith, control and the future of global …
The silence of prayer helps us imagine a different future and to resist the thought that weapons can …
The relationship between papal diplomacy and Tehran in light of the current Middle East conflict
In his meeting with Venezuela’s opposition leader, Pope Leo upholds the country’s constitution, sovereignty, and human rights
Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro is the undersecretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See. He is a member of the board of directors of Georgetown University and a full member of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon.
With an encyclical and commission on AI, Leo places human dignity at the center of the Church’s response to the algorithmic age.
The university’s highest task is to teach a person to live by thinking and to think by living, rather than reduce them to a construct of external expectations and influences.
Leo speaks in the language of a pope who does not separate the lecture hall from the public square or knowledge from justice.
At the center center of Leo's pontificate seems to lie a specific conviction: holding together what is coming apart.
Washington has not come to Rome to convert the pope but to acknowledge, implicitly and legibly, that his voice carries weight.
Musicians Hildegard von Bingen and Patti Smith are linked across centuries through music, in which they find healing.
For Leo, peace is a gift that precedes politics and diplomat’s task is to become its instrument, even when the whole enterprise seems futile.
Africa is portrayed as a source of wisdom and vitality, with a call to resist cultural homogenization rather than be treated as an object of concern.
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