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Jul 18, 2025
The June 29 solemnity of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul coincided with a symbolic moment in the relationship between the papacy and the global Church: Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born...
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Jun 25, 2025
Just a few days after the conclave, the newly elected pope Leo XIV had to pass his first test of international politics. Some had overinterpreted remarks from Cardinal...
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May 15, 2025
The election of Leo XIV broke one of the geopolitical paradigms of modern Catholicism: the pope cannot come from a world (or colonial) superpower, whether Spain, Portugal, France, or...
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Apr 11, 2025
ope Francis’s slow, ongoing recovery after his five-week hospitalization makes for a scenario full of uncertainties about the governance of the Vatican and the Catholic Church....
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Mar 11, 2025
With regime change come attacks on universities. History is filled with precedents—Italy and Germany in the 1920s and ’30s, Chile in 1973, Cambodia in the late...
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Feb 10, 2025
In the first two weeks of the Trump presidency, J. D. Vance gave two television interviews. In one he challenged fellow Catholics on the understanding of the hierarchy of love (which...
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Jan 22, 2025
Relations between the Vatican and Israel—and the state of Jewish-Catholic dialogue in general—are at a historical low point. The Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, and...
