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Articles tagged as "Pope Francis"

On Political Boundaries and Christian Love

MT Dávila
March 18, 2025

The measure of Christian love is not a set of boundaries around specific kinds of people, but, rather, the gift of God’s crossing all boundaries through the Incarnation.

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The Pope Francis Effect in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Respect, Love, Compassion, Truth

Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula, S.J., PhD
May 16, 2023January 27, 2024

This piece is co-published with the Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa blog Pope Francis’s long-awaited trip to the Democratic…

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A Good Apology? Pope Francis’s Acknowledgment of Abuse in Canadian Indian Residential Schools

Series: The Catholic Church and Indian Residential Schools
Meghan J. Clark
July 21, 2022July 24, 2022

The good apology must go beyond complicity by recognizing culpability in wrongdoing and harm.

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Contending Populisms: Pope Francis’s Response to the Politics of Division

Angus Ritchie
May 5, 2021

Our research in East London shows how citizens in some of the poorest neighborhoods of England harnessed their religious convictions to work together to discern and promote a truly common good.

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The Peace Dimensions of Fratelli Tutti: A Muslim Perspective

A. Rashied Omar
March 22, 2021February 1, 2024

Pope Francis has inaugurated a constructive platform for credible Muslim leaders to enter into a renewed dialogue with Catholics.

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Fraternity is More Durable than Fratricide : Pope Francis Visits Iraq

Omar Mohammed and Victoria Fontan
March 18, 2021March 19, 2021

Pope Francis might have performed a diplomatic miracle: that of beginning to help bridge the religious fault lines in Iraq by encouraging, for the first time, Ayatollah al-Sistani to appear in public.

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