In 'Magnifica humanitas,' Pope Leo presents a genuinely universalist civilizational discourse, calling for a social order whose guiding principle is love.
If the Church itself does not recognize the full humanity of half its own members, how can it expect Silicon Valley and heads of state to respect its sermon on human dignity?
It is necessary to have a pontiff with a strong political voice. But what will Leo's political prominence augur for the prospects of a more synodal Church?
Pope Leo's call for disarmament leaves room for the possibility that AI can have good uses. But those uses can only be discovered by those who work for flourishing communities.
The moment has arrived for a new papal document that would offer a comprehensive Catholic condemnation of authoritarianism and a moral defense of liberal democracy.
Leo’s Catholic critics tend to focus on just-war theory, while ignoring the support of the last several popes for international law and a world governing authority.
The clashes between Leo and the Trump administration underscore how U.S. Catholics have come to behave as though they are religious authorities unto themselves.
Moderated by editor Dominic Preziosi, three journalists weigh in on Pope Leo’s first year as part of the annual Cardinal Bernardin Common Cause Lecture series.
The growing number of adult baptisms in European and the United States has caught the notice of Church leaders who are attentive to even the smallest signs of revival.
The Church is gaining credibility for speaking up for Gospel values in the public square—even when it means criticizing a president that nearly 60 percent of Catholic voters chose.
For Vatican theologians, the imagined obsolescence of humanity is not a historical prospect to be welcomed or feared, but an intellectual error to be avoided.
Many U.S. bishops remain unwilling to call out Trump's authoritarianism. They would be wise to draw lessons from the Church's history with Italian Fascism.
Leo possesses the mind of a mathematician and canon lawyer. He has the makings of an effective manager—even of a sprawling organization like the Church.
Despite the hopes of Catholic traditionalists, Pope Leo has not undone Francis’s limits on the Latin Mass, but other questions about liturgy remain on the synodal table.
Leo has introduced, in his gentle style, a different way to govern the Vatican—one that is more mindful of the need to work together with all those in the hierarchy.
The recent public display of fraternity between pope and king came at a fortuitous time. The installation of Sarah Mullally as archbishop of Canterbury could complicate relations between the Vatican and the Church of England.
The uproar surrounding Cardinal Cupich’s decision to honor Dick Durbin for his work on immigration reform reveals more about the divisions in the U.S. Church than it does about either man.
It is remarkable and new, not just that web design was a major part of Carlo Acutis’s life, but that the Catholic Church praised it as an integral aspect of his sanctity.
In Christopher White's 'insta-book' on Leo's early papacy, Pope Francis is a central figure. In Matthew Bunson's biography of the new pope, Francis hardly exists.
Fifty years ago, the Helsinki Accords reflected a bipolar world dominated by the U.S. Today, Pope Leo XIV faces a geopolitical environment that is far more unpredictable.
Chicago Catholicism is distinctive and one of its own is now the pope. What might Robert Prevost's South Side upbringing teach us about the man who would become Leo XIV?
The signature achievement of Pope Francis was to reignite the spirit of Vatican II. Pope Leo's signature achievement may be to lead the Church into a ‘post-post-conciliar’ era.
