Pope Leo XIV greets visitors and pilgrims from the popemobile as he rides around St Peter’s Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience on December 10, 2025. Photo: CNS / Lola Gomez.
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical offers the Irish Church both challenge and hope, pointing it away from nostalgia for former certainties and away from a merely reactive accommodation to contemporary trends, according to theologian Prof. Eamonn Conway. In an analysis of Magnifica Humanitas sent to this paper, Prof. Conway (who was a Synod Expert at the…
