Cardinal Re to Electors: Next Pope Must Strengthen Church as Our ‘Home and School of Communion’
COMMENTARY: Preaching, worship and charity aren’t rival qualities but form a unified mission — and the new pope must live and lead with all three.
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New Pope Must Correct the Declining Course of Catholicism in Latin America
COMMENTARY: Pope Francis’ successor should address four main aspects: persecution, social doctrine, missionary withering and poor governance.
This Question Shook John Paul II — Now Another Man Must Answer Christ’s Summons
COMMENTARY: The greatest pre-conclave homily was preached by St. John Paul II in 1978, on the Gospel where Christ asks Peter three times, ‘Do you love me?’ — the same Gospel heard in churches around the world this Sunday.
Why Pope Francis Made Foreign Policy a High Priority
COMMENTARY: Five areas are worthy of assessment: migration, tyranny, China, climate change and Islam.
Divine Mercy Takes Center Stage With Pope Francis’ Funeral
COMMENTARY: The mercy of God is invoked at any Catholic funeral, and Divine Mercy has been a mainstay of papal life for 25 years.
Pope Francis’ Ardent Love for St. Mary Major, His Final Resting Place
COMMENTARY: Of all the great basilicas of Rome, the one dedicated to the Blessed Mother was his favorite.
The 7 Last Words and the Nicene Creed: ‘It Is Finished’
Jesus’ final words from the Cross — ‘It is finished’ — do not signal an end, but a consummation. Through the Creed and the Cross, we are invited into the mystery that continues through the Church, the sacraments, and the promise of resurrection.
The 7 Last Words and the Nicene Creed: ‘Father, Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit’
The sixth word Christ utters from the cross brings us to the death of the Lord Jesus, crucified for our sake.
The 7 Last Words and the Nicene Creed: ‘I Thirst’
COMMENTARY: The fifth word from the cross points to Christ’s real bodily suffering — and his divine thirst for our salvation — as foretold in Scripture and confessed in the Creed.
The 7 Last Words and the Nicene Creed: ‘My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?’
COMMENTARY: The fourth of Christ’s ‘Seven Last Words From the Cross’ reflects the mystery at the heart of the Nicene Creed — a suffering God who prays Psalm 22 and transforms our dereliction into redemption.
