Francis, rebuild my Church
In April, 2014, Vatican watcher Andrea Tornielli outlined the key challenges ahead for the ...
View ArticleHow do you solve a problem like the Curia?
Calls for reform of the Roman Curia were already near fever pitch when Pope Benedict announced ...
View ArticleArchbishop Hart: Pope Francis and the Family Synod
The President of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Denis Hart, played an ...
View ArticleNot so fast, say five Cardinals
In the lead-up to last year's Family Synod, five members of the College of Cardinals, including ...
View ArticleUniting the broad Church with the help of two saintly Popes
When Francis presided over the joint canonisations of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, John ...
View ArticleImpatience of the Left
On the Left wing of the Church, activists such as Sister Teresa Forcades have welcomed ...
View ArticleReaction of the Right
In an October, 2014 interview with Spanish weekly Vida Nueva, America's ...
View ArticleRodriguez to Muller: Loosen up about reform
In January, 2014, Cardinal Rodriguez, an influential aide to Pope Francis, urged the head of the ...
View ArticleCardinal Kasper's Gospel of Mercy
The German Cardinal and theologian, Walter Kasper, had long been an odd man out in the Vatican ...
View ArticleCardinal Muller's sacramental line in the sand
In late 2013, The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop Gerhard ...
View ArticlePeople's Pontiff lets debate reign
True to his image as the Pontiff who listens to the people and wants to build a less hectoring ...
View ArticleThe Pope on video this week
The second anniversary of the election of Pope Francis has brought some enduring images of ...
View Article'For God so loved the world...'
The New Covenant was sealed when Christ died for our sins, as John 3:14-21 tells us ...
View ArticleTotally radical Pontiff?
A recent biography of Francis by Austen Ivereigh offers an affectionate examination of the making ...
View ArticleWho said it: Benedict or Francis?
It has been centuries since there were two living Popes, and nobody would mistake the personal ...
View ArticleWhere Francis is leading the Church
Garry Wills is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American Catholic author who latest book The Future of ...
View ArticleHow Francis can prevail in his reform drive
The reforms that Francis launched with vigour and near-evangelistic zeal are showing signs of a ...
View ArticleWomen feel left out of progress in the Church
Nowhere are the hopes raised by Pope Francis over the past two years felt more keenly than among ...
View ArticleBattle royal: Francis versus the Conservatives
The Pope is engaged in a struggle to bring the Church into the modern age, and American ...
View ArticleTwo years on, 'the Pope Emeritus experiment is working'
Days after Benedict’s resignation, I was asked by a taxi driver if there was a risk of ...
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