Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Dilexi te is a call to accompany the vulnerable, excluded, and marginalized as God accompanies them.
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The way of poverty, as lived by the earliest followers of Jesus, was the stubborn anchor and controversial standard of Francis’s reform papacy.
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Through both his public declarations and private acts, Pope Francis offered a holistic witness to Palestinian humanity.
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According to his detractors, Francis, in addition to “downplaying” the Church’s condemnation of abortion, failed sufficiently to condemn so-called sexual sins.
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Islamophobia is one of the ideological currents that significantly undergirds our current world order . . . and Zohran Mamdani’s election disrupts the flow of that ideological current.
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The eyes of Silwan represent the power of the dead for the living in Palestine.
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The U.S. Catholic community—numbering 53 million self-identified Catholic adults, or roughly one-fifth of the U.S. population—is complex and layered (as is the phrase “opposition to Pope Francis”).
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That Pope Francis seemed to resist the logic of the progressive/conservative binary is an indication of how ill-equipped we are to make sense of religious actors using categories derived from a political framework.
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It’s clear that God is getting tired
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To the extent that there is a comprehensible theology underlying the Trump Administration’s engagement with the world, it is not premised upon an understanding or tenet of Christianity.
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