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?
Bishop Erik Varden is a Catholic who desires to be catholic: to root himself in the soil of the tradition while at the same time journeying to alien lands.
Pope Francis thought of the Church as a polyhedron, comprising many faces that meet each other along sharp lines yet always maintain their individuality.
"Ceasing to attend to the inner theater and looking instead at the Christian story of death would place Christians where they belong: in the open before their God."
A father and son pair of biblical scholars insist that changing one’s mind about sexuality is legitimated by the way Scripture shows God changing his mind.
‘Fiducia supplicans’ seems written to reinforce very stubborn ideas: that there is a proper place for liturgy and that married gay people do not belong there.
