In his latest #VaticanDiary, @antoniospadaro traces a quiet thread from a 2002 homily in New Lenox to #PopeLeoXIV voting in the current US midterm elections. For Leo, citizenship means participation, and voting is a duty the papacy never suspended. He never tells anyone how to vote; he simply shows up.
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In his latest #VaticanDiary, @antoniospadaro argues that #PopeLeo’s catechesis on #faith and #culture rejects two temptations: using Christianity as a badge of national belonging, or withdrawing from the world as an apocalyptic stage. Faith can take flesh in any culture, he says, because it is identified with none.
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What is sex for? And why are we afraid to ask?
From chastity and modesty to changing cultural values, a Catholic educator challenges us to revisit difficult moral questions.
#CatholicEducation #MoralTheology #FaithAndCulture
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As media empires grow, are independent voices being silenced?
Corporate mergers, political influence and shrinking press freedom raise urgent questions about the future of journalism.
Who controls the stories we hear?
#MediaFreedom #Journalism #PressFreedom
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Can the Catholic Church thrive without academic #theology? A new #Vatican document barely mentions universities, exposing a growing divide between the Church and theologians.
@MassimoFaggioli
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Prayer or political endorsement?
The image of Catholic bishops surrounding President Trump raises questions about faith, power, and the Church’s prophetic independence.
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In his latest #VaticanDiary, @antoniospadaro asks what happens to justice when an algorithm decides. A ruling must give reasons the convicted can contest. A black-box system gives none, and law shrinks into technique, emptied of justice. Someone, he argues, must still be able to answer.
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI
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In his latest #Waypoint, @AntonioSpadaro reflects on #PopeLeo’s address to the world’s leading museum directors. Spadaro observes that #Leo frames matter as an inheritance that must be safeguarded to bear fruit, a malleable material that can be formed to express the artist’s idea, and an object that passes the wisdom of the past to the present.
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Can Christianity be tied to an “America First” vision? @MassimoFaggioli examines Rubio’s Athens speech and the Vatican’s resistance to making a global Church a tool of empire.
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In his latest #VaticanDiary, @antoniospadaro traces how news of #PopeLeo’s diagnosis traveled from #Moscow to #Kyiv, and #Tehran to #Jerusalem. Spadaro observes that a religious leader’s health becomes a geopolitical matter when his voice carries weight in wars still being fought. Rival capitals asked one question: how is the health of the man who keeps asking for peace?
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In his latest #VaticanDiary, @AntonioSpadaro looks at #PopeLeo’s meeting with bishops on the tenth anniversary of Amoris Laetitia. Leo gives no ready answers, Spadaro notes, but poses a question: what kind of Church do people encounter when they are most fragile? Fragility, Leo stresses, belongs to all of us, the Church included.
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Three #Vatican-related events reveal a widening doctrinal gap between the #CatholicChurch and Judaism over Zionism and the State of #Israel — a divide diplomacy alone may not bridge.
@MassimoFaggioli examines what this means for Leo XIV’s pontificate.
#NostraAetate #Vatican #Judaism #PopeLeoXIV
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In his latest #Waypoint, @antoniospadaro traces #PopeLeo's view of the #UN back to his years as Augustinian prior general. Spadaro argues Prevost chose the table over denunciation, and the pope who now calls for UN reform, not lament, sees it as a forum where talking remains possible when elsewhere people have stopped.
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In his latest #VaticanDiary, @antoniospadaro unpacks #PopeLeo's theme for World Communications Day: attention, not clicks. Spadaro argues that real attention works like a compass, not a stopwatch, pointing us toward what matters. He also warns that #clickbait and algorithms train us for outrage instead, and that habit is the root of our polarization.
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The abuse of nuns in Africa has long remained hidden by fear, stigma, clericalism and patriarchy.
Sr. Mary Lembo sheds light on the silence surrounding victims — and the safeguarding efforts beginning to bring change.
#CatholicChurch #Safeguarding #Africa
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In his latest #Waypoint, @antoniospadaro pushes back on reading #PopeLeo's #France trip as electoral. He argues that Leo speaks to conscience, not politics, telling French Catholics tempted by nationalism that roots are good but walls aren't and that a #Christianity without Christ is just a bell tower without a bell.
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In his latest #VaticanDiary, @antoniospadaro previews #PopeLeo's trip to #France, themed "that the world may have life" just as the country legalizes assisted dying. Spadaro's read: Leo answers not by arguing the law, but by choosing proximity—sitting with the sick in Lourdes, meeting abuse victims, welcoming the thousands of adults now seeking baptism.
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Mental illness is not a failure of faith or a punishment from God. It is a form of human suffering that calls the Church to replace stigma with compassion, understanding and care.
How can the Church make God’s love visible to those who suffer?
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In his latest #VaticanDiary, @antoniospadaro analyzes a new #Synod report on picking bishops: the rules don't change, but who gets heard before a name reaches the Pope does—nuncios are asked to engage in deeper dialogue in the spirit of synodality. Bishops serve decades, so this quiet shift may shape the Church more than any encyclical, says Spadaro.
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