File this post under the “Anti-Catholicism is alive and well” category. Here is Pence’s tweet: This guy is questioning Pence’s Christianity: Not an evangelical?: And the hits keep coming: Jon Root invokes R.C. Sproul:
Pope Francis
Anti-Catholicism is alive and well in some sectors of the evangelical world
In case you haven’t heard, Pope Francis is in critical condition. I know that there are many people around the world who do not agree with the way Pope Francis has applied his Christian faith to social, cultural, and political […]
Pope Francis tells jokes
And in The New York Times no less! Here is a taste of Pope Francis’s “There Is Faith in Humor“: Jokes about and told by Jesuits are in a class of their own, comparable maybe only to those about the carabinieri […]
Pope Francis: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are “against life”
On a recent flight from Singapore to Rome, Anna Matranga of CBS News had a question for Pope Francis: Your Holiness, you have always spoken in defence of the dignity of life. In Timor-Leste, which has a high birth rate, […]
Pope Francis defends the humanities
Here is a taste Pope Francis’s letter to candidates for the Catholic priesthood: “On the Role of Literature in Formation” 1. I had originally chosen to give this Letter a title referring to priestly formation.On further reflection, however, this subject […]
“They like the singer but not the song”
Pope Francis’s 60 Minutes interview is still making waves. Evangelicals are freaking out because Francis said that human beings are “good at heart.” Progressive Catholics are mad about his remarks on the ordination of women as deacons and his comments […]
Pope Francis on Texas immigration policy: “That is madness. Sheer madness”
Over at Religion News Service, Claire GiangravĂ© reports on Nora O’Donnell’s 60 Minutes interview with Pope Francis. Here is a taste: Conservative opposition to this pontificate by bishops in the United States is “a suicidal attitude” that clings to the […]
Are American conservatives more Catholic than the Pope?
The Catholic Church is dividing along culture war lines. For many conservative Catholics associated with the “old guard leadership” of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Catholic cable channel EWTN, Pope Francis is enemy number one. David Gibson, […]
Pope Francis on “consumerist greed” and “selfish hearts”
Here is Claire GiangravĂ© at Religion News Service: Pope Francis condemned “consumerist greed” and “selfish hearts” as responsible for the climate crisis in his yearly message for World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, which occurs on Sept. […]
“It’s the Gospel, stupid”
Here is Oxford church historian, journalist, and Pope Francis biographer Austen Ivereigh at Commonweal on why the pontiff focuses so much on migration: Yet neither the current scale of the problem nor Francis’s own background is sufficient to grasp why […]
Pope Francis: “I think Benedict’s death was instrumentalized”
I recently read a blog post from Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, that used the death of Pope Benedict to score political points. Here is a taste of that post: Ratzinger was a great […]
Pope Francis: Homosexuality is “not a crime…but it’s a sin”Â
Francis recently spoke to the Associated Press: A taste: Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ […]
Why didn’t Pope Francis watch yesterday’s World Cup final?
As I have said a few times here at this blog, I am not a soccer fan. But I enjoyed watching this year’s World Cup. After viewing the final match between Argentina and France I texted my daughter, a student […]
Is Pope Francis retiring?
Earlier this month The Washington Post suggested that this might be the case. Michael Gerson, a Wheaton graduate and former George W. Bush speechwriter, takes up the issue in his latest column. Here is a taste: It is not easy […]
The Catholic Fox News
I used to occasionally watch EWTN. As a former Catholic (I am confirmed in the church and a friend who is a priest tells me that all I need to do is go to confession and I’m back in), I […]
Pope Francis expresses solidarity with the people of Ukraine
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Pope Francis calls for an end to the bloodshed in Ukraine
Here is America magazine: “Rivers of blood and of tears are flowing in Ukraine,” Pope Francis said today as he made a passionate and robust appeal for an end to the war in Ukraine that has now entered its 11th […]
Pope Francis says “cancel culture” is a form of “one-track thinking”
On Monday, the Pope had some interesting things to say about cancel culture and tried to offer a lesson in historical thinking. Here is the relevant part of his address to the Vatican’s Diplomatic Corps: The diminished effectiveness of many […]
Joe Biden told Pope Francis a story about Satchel Paige
Check out Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández‘s great piece at Commonweal on the importance of story-telling. Here is a taste: Lost in threads of contested interpretations on social media was the fact that Biden was speaking to Pope Francis in one of […]
Pope Francis addresses “social poets”
Francis takes on credit institutions, pharmaceutical companies, mining, agribusiness, food corporations, arms manufacturers, technology and telecommunications giants who promote fake news, and neo-colonialism. Here is a taste of the text of the Pope’s latest video message “for the popular movements”: […]