Raymond J. de Souza

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  • Oct 21, 2025
    logans do not lift people out of poverty,” Pope Leo XIV said in his address to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, exactly a week after his first major document was...
  • Sep 12, 2025
    Catholic piety suggests that God sends the world the saints it needs, not merely in life but also when they are raised to the altars. Consider St. Agnes of Prague (1211-82),...
  • May 8, 2025
    With the cardinals locked away in the conclave—the word literally means “with a key”—a silence descends on the Sistine Chapel. There are no speeches. The most...
  • May 7, 2025
    Does a conclave elect the man the Holy Spirit desires to lead the Church? History teaches that sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s view...