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Pope Francis’ poor word choice in describing the Church’s catechism on sexuality as ‘still in diapers’ (‘The Pope: Answers’, Hulu) can’t...

Dear Pope Francis, We enter Holy Week fixed on Jesus. His wounds are magnetic to us, the wounded. I am grateful for your exhortation to...

Dear Pope Francis, I just returned from a Living Waters group where Jesus is healing broken lives aspiring to chastity. My co-teacher...

Dear Pope Francis, Thank you for fathering us generously. You eschew formalities, which invites us to pour out contradictions—desires in...

Dear Pope Francis, Thank you for championing the oppressed; you help create level ground on which they regain footing and dignity. As the...

Dear Pope Francis, You exemplify a father who draws near to sons and daughters to dignify them. You encourage us to aspire to more, to...

Pope Francis, Forgive my mild resistance to the ‘synod on synodality.’ The name itself tempts me to revert to evangelicalism; I resist. I...

‘We are all children of God and God loves us as we are…’ Pope Francis, on loving ‘LGBTQ+-identified’ people Pope Francis rightly...

If Epiphany means to make something clear, then late great Pope Benedict is the Feast’s exemplar. ‘Stand firm in the faith! Don’t let...

‘Perhaps what we modern people most need is to be genuinely shaken, so that where life is grounded, we would feel its stability; and...

‘If you don’t stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all’ (Is. 7:9). Christian, never apologize for upholding persons in their...

‘It is Jesus who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed...

‘Theology of the Body constitutes a kind of timebomb set to go off in the third millennium of the Church...it may well be seen as a...

‘Jesus testifies that the mystery of creation becomes the power of the mystery of redemption’ (Theology of the Body 46:5). John Wimber...

‘Do you think that I have come to bring peace? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against...

I’ve been waiting all my Catholic life for this. In response to Fr. Martin’s questions about how the Church should respond to the rainbow...

In a culture committed to every sexual and relational variant imaginable, we need direction. A map for whole relationships. We have one...

‘There’s something deeply corrosive about attempting to live in such a way that demands everyone agree with you.’ Sonny Bunch One...

By Marco Casanova Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of...

‘Man becomes truly himself precisely at the point when he recognizes that the highest and brightest Being dwells within him.’ Fr. Alfred...