A new Vatican anthology presents the pontiff’s teaching on peace The peace proposed by Pope Leo XIV is “not abstract, ideological, or naive” but one that “passes through the pain, contradictions, and wounds of the world,” according to Alessandro Banfi, communications director of the Oasis Foundation and coordinator of a new book collecting the pope’s…
Pope Leo XIV devotes a substantial portion of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, to the impact of the digital revolution on education and family life. The pontiff acknowledges that “rapid technological transformations reveal just how unprepared we are on the educational level.” He warns that “the pervasiveness of digital media fosters a culture of immediacy…
The Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod published on May 5 the testimonies of two men in civil marriages with other men who describe from personal experience the tensions and wounds that have marked their life of faith within the Church. It is the first time a Vatican text has given voice to this group…
Pope Leo XIV is aware that among the vocations to which men and women are called by God, marriage is one of the “noblest and highest.” He said as much last October, on the 10th anniversary of the canonisation of Sts Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of St Thérèse of the Child Jesus. Now,…